2159“This was a thing my mother used to say to me when I was little. I wanted to have a little brother and I didn’t have one for a long time. Finally, when I was seven, she gave me a little brother, and then of course like kids we would fight. She would always say this to me then and that would make me stop and not fight with him any more.

“As we were growing up, something would happen and she would remind me of this phrase and we would stop fighting. Today, that’s a number of decades later, he is still my very best friend.”

Leyla has her own travel blog called Women On The Road. Taken at the Flower Clock in Geneva, Switzerland on the SOTM World Tour with the help of Eurail.com.