A small site about travel, slow living, and the long way around.

I started this site in the spring of 2024 because I had been writing travel notes in a private notebook for years and decided some of them might be worth sharing. There was no plan. There still isn’t one, really.

What you will find here are essays, city guides, and occasional recipes — written slowly, edited honestly, and never on a schedule. I write when I have something to say, and not when I don’t.

What I write about

Cities, when I love them. I do not write about places I dislike. The internet has enough complaints. If a city has moved me, I will try to explain why. Lisbon, Kyoto, Marrakech, Naples, the small villages of the Italian Riviera — these are the places I keep returning to, both on the page and in person.

Slow travel, when I can manage it. Night trains over short flights when possible. A week in one place over five days across five. Eating where the locals eat. Walking instead of taxis. Reading the menu instead of the reviews.

Food, when it is part of the place. Pizza in Naples. Pastéis de nata in Lisbon. Anchovies in the Cinque Terre. Tagines in Marrakech. The recipes I share are not the ones I invented — they are the ones cooked by women in small kitchens who fed me kindly and refused payment.

The practice of paying attention. This is the underlying theme, if there is one. I think travel is interesting only insofar as it teaches you to notice. The notebook, the letter, the slow morning, the long walk — these are the same instinct, applied at home and away.

Who I am

My name is on the masthead. I am based in Jaipur, India, though I have lived in three other countries and traveled in many more. I work as a writer and consultant. My partner is patient with the travel. My cat is not.

I am not a professional travel writer in the magazine sense. I do not take press trips. I do not partner with hotels or tourism boards. Everything I write about, I paid for myself, and I have no incentive to recommend something I did not actually love.

What this site is not

It is not a list of “best places to eat in [city]” in the SEO sense. Those exist already and they are excellent at what they do. This is something quieter — closer to a long letter, less concerned with completeness.

It is also not monetized. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored posts, no banner ads, no popups, no email newsletter (though I might add one eventually). The site exists because writing it is something I would do anyway.

How to get in touch

If you want to write back, you can reach me at hello@example.com. I read every email and I try to reply within a week or two. If you have a recommendation for a place I should visit, I would love to hear it.

The best emails I get are not feedback or compliments — they are stories. A reader who took the night train from Vienna to Venice after reading my piece and wants to tell me about her cabin. A reader in Naples who corrects my pizza facts gently. A reader who started keeping a notebook on his honeymoon. These keep me writing.

A note on photos

The photos on this site were almost all taken on a single small camera that fits in a jacket pocket. They are not professional. They are not edited beyond cropping and minor exposure adjustments. They are meant to give a sense of a place, not to sell it.

Thanks for reading

If you found something here that mattered to you, send it to one other person. That is the only thing I want, and it is enough.