Travel Secrets September - October 2015 | Page 40

Poetry Brothel, Paris “I’m a bit old school in my approach. I mostly rely on Search Engine Optimisation techniques to increase traffic on my website.” and then select the girl or boy of your choice (at least that’s how I imagine a brothel works!) except instead of having sex with you, the puta reads you an erotic poem. Essentially, it’s a way of returning intimacy to poetry, which makes sense since reading an erotic poem to a crowd of people destroys the point a bit. It originally started in the United States but is slowly branching out to other parts of the world. WHICH travel writer or blogger DO you admire? A great blogger for me needs to be a great photographer and a great writer (the Metelkova second part surprisingly gets overlooked a lot), plus have a great personality and travelling lifestyle (I confess I am more of a travel editor than nomadic blogger, which is why I get my expert team of local insiders to help me!). For me the best then is Michael Turtle (www. timetravelturtle.com) Ljubljana, Slovenia 40  Travel Secrets September-October 2015 Pick a favourite post from your blog and tell us the story behind it If you like a little misbehaving then you might appreciate my One Blurry Night in Ljubljana post. I was in Ljubljana for 8 days last year on the invitation of the tourism board, but the best fun I had was partying in the former squat called Metelkova. It’s a complex with maybe