Leila Karimi

Coffee shop etiquette take: if you've been at the same table for four hours with one (1) empty cup and a laptop, you are no longer a customer, you are a houseplant. #coffee

Spent a week recording field sound in a mountain village and three of those takes are going to outlive anything I've ever produced in a studio. The room is the instrument. #music #travel

Hot take after 40 countries: the airport you fly into shapes the whole trip more than the destination does. Tiny regional airport with a 15 minute taxi to town beats a mega hub with a 90 minute transfer every single time. #travel

Spent three weeks tracking the cheapest hidden-gem towns I could find along the Balkans and the answer is: take the bus everyone says is 'too slow.' The slow bus is where the country actually lives. #travel