The Journal

Travel writing, not travel content.

City pieces, planning notes, and the slow craft of editorial travel writing. Read whichever one is calling.

Destinations

A perfect day in Essaouira

An hour-by-hour walk through Morocco's windswept Atlantic port. The medina, the ramparts, the fishing harbour, and the long ocean light.

Destinations

Merzouga: a night in the Sahara at Erg Chebbi

How to reach Erg Chebbi, what a night in the dunes is actually like, and how to do the desert without the worst of the circus.

Destinations

A perfect day in Copenhagen's Nørrebro

The neighborhood Copenhagen actually lives in. Coffee, the cemetery locals treat as a park, Jægersborggade, and where to eat all day.

Destinations

Dubrovnik in the shoulder season

In summer it is a cruise-ship crush. Go in May or October and it becomes the city it was. When to go, and how to see the walls and the sea in peace.

Destinations

A perfect day in San Miguel de Allende

Mexico's most photographed colonial town, underneath the postcard. The Parroquia, the rooftops, the art, and where to eat all day.

Destinations

Morocco for the first time: how to think about the route

A first trip lives or dies on the route, not the list. How to sequence the cities, the desert and the coast, and what to skip.

Destinations

Montana's Glacier country, taken slowly

How to do Glacier National Park without rushing. The road, the lakes, Many Glacier, and why the slow version is the only good one.

Destinations

Arizona's red rock country: Sedona, and what is past it

How to see Sedona's red rocks well, and use the town as a base for the quieter canyons and high desert beyond.

Destinations

Southern Italy by the sea, past the Amalfi Coast

South of the crush lies the same sea without the crowd: the Cilento, Maratea, Puglia. Where to go, and how to think about the choice.

Trip Planning

One list, every trip

A universal packing list that stays the same wherever you go. Build it once, and packing becomes the part you have already finished.

Travel Writing

How to keep a travel diary you'll actually read again

Three lines a day, a date, and a single photo. A small method for holding on to the parts of a trip that usually slip away.

Travel Writing

The trip you planned and the trip you had

There are always two trips, the planned one and the lived one. A short piece on the gap between them, and where the stress hides.

Trip Planning

Five people, one trip

How to plan a trip with friends without losing it to the group chat. Pick the dates, give the plan a home, and leave room to breathe.

Destinations

A perfect day in Mexico City's Roma Norte

An hour-by-hour walking guide to one of Mexico City's best neighborhoods. Where to eat, drink, and walk, from morning bakery to evening cantina.

Destinations

Off-season Lisbon: what locals actually do in November

Lisbon in November is the Lisbon locals love. Better light, heartier food, empty miradouros, and tram 28 used as actual transit.

Trip Planning

How to plan a three-stop European trip without losing your mind

A six-step framework. How to pick your anchor city, order your stops, book open-jaw flights, and leave room to breathe.

Travel Writing

Why we hand-curate our city travel guides

Most online travel guides are scraped, generated, and interchangeable. Here is why we are building the opposite.

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