Nine Days Alone in New York
August 2026 · About 7 minutes
Of nine days, the most New York thing about New York was the afternoon with nothing planned in it.
Journal
Journal
On slowness, on mornings, on feeling small — a few things we believe and practise. Updated slowly, like everything we do.
Four Days Upriver, in Peru
August 2026 · About 8 minutes
The guide listened first, pointed second, and raised a hand last. In four days I learned more birds than in all the years before.
Certainty Is Another Name for Luxury
July 2026 · About 6 minutes
What is truly scarce in fine travel is not scenery — it is the complete ease of having handed everything over.
One Itinerary, One Hundred Confirmations
June 2026 · About 5 minutes
What you see is a few thin pages. What we see is a long checklist of written confirmations.
Slowness, an Underrated Luxury
May 2026 · About 6 minutes
Aircraft have shrunk the earth to a dozen hours — and we find ourselves missing scenery that took three days by train.
Morning Rituals of the Road
March 2026 · About 5 minutes
Whether in a tent on the plains or a machiya in Kyoto, one thing is always kept for you: an undisturbed morning.
Making Oneself Small
January 2026 · About 5 minutes
Before a dune or a glacier, smallness is not a loss — it is a well-tended humility.
How a Journey Is Made
November 2025 · About 7 minutes
Between the first phone call and your front door lie seventy quiet decisions.
Is the Jungle Dangerous?
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
This is the question asked most often about jungle trips. The honest answer comes in three layers.
Won't an Island Get Boring?
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Those who ask this question are often the ones who most need an island. Our answer comes in two halves: yes — and that is precisely the point.
Will the Lights Show Up?
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Every client who books an aurora trip asks this question. Our answer begins with the numbers, but does not end there.
How Long Should a Honeymoon Be?
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Seven days or fourteen? We have answered this question a hundred times, and the answer turns on one thing: how you intend to define it.
But I Can't Swim
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
This is the most frequent question our sailing trips receive. The answer is yes — and those who cannot swim are often the ones who enjoy it most.
Why a Ship
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Aeroplanes make the world small; a ship restores it to its true size.
On Emptiness
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
A guest, having looked around the room, asked: is that all? We said: yes — this is everything, and the hardest part.
Why We Chose the Rails
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Zurich to Venice: fifty minutes by air, eight hours by train. We chose the eight hours, and take full responsibility for it.
Before Your First Safari
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Two weeks before departure, we write our guests a letter. This is the one that has drawn the most replies.
Seven Things for the Jungle
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
The jungle is honest about luggage: the more you bring, the more you owe it. These are the seven we arrived at after paring back again and again.
Crossing the Drake
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
On the way to Antarctica there is a famous threshold. The two days spent crossing it deserve a record of their own.
The Three What-Ifs
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
A guest asked: why two extra nights in Ushuaia? We said: those are the seats we keep for ‘what if’.
Choosing Your Island
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
The Maldives has more than a hundred resort islands. “Any of them will do” — that very sentence is the one that tests us most.
Six Don'ts
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
After years of designing family journeys, most of what we have learned is not what to do, but what to leave undone.
On Bringing Your Parents
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
A client hesitated for two years, then asked whether we could take her seventy-year-old parents to see the snow mountains once. This is our reply.
Five Small Things
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Anyone can plan the big items of a honeymoon. What truly makes the difference are a few small things easily left out.
Seven Tells
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
After a dozen years of inspecting hotels, we have amassed a checklist that pays no heed to star ratings. It begins with the scent of the entrance hall.
Five Quiet Hours in Kyoto
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Kyoto is not crowded; what is crowded are the few hours everyone shares. Step out of them, and the old capital is given back to you.
Ninety Days for a Table
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Some restaurants are as hard to book as a flight. On our calendar, the days the tables open are marked with an alarm.
We Charter the Captain
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
Two identical yachts can make two entirely different holidays. The difference lies not in the boat, but in the one at the helm.
Waiting for the Crossing
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
The great migration keeps no timetable. What passes for luck is having designed the waiting itself well enough.
The Last Continent
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
In her sixty-eighth year, the last blank on her map of the world was filled in with colour. The ceremony was small: only a jar of snow.
What Ice Sounds Like
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
The most unexpected thing about Antarctica is not how the ice looks, but how it sounds — it never stops speaking.
Three Minutes of Sky
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
An aurora’s outburst gives no warning. It picks only those willing to wait in the cold wind.
What the Storm Decided
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
The afternoon the flight was cancelled, the itinerary fell apart. Afterwards, everyone was grateful for that snow.
By the Tide
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
A day on the island should not be carved up by the clock. The tide table is its true table of contents.
Kyoto, at 39 Degrees
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
On the third day the child ran a fever. That day held no sights, yet it became the one the family speaks of most.
Pasang Says Slowly
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
The same words, said in three places, each time meaning something different. By the time I understood, the mountain was already behind us.
Tea at Altitude
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
At four thousand two hundred metres, hospitality is a simple thing: a place by the hearth, and a bowl of butter tea that is never allowed to empty.
To the One Who Can't Stop
August 2026 · About 3 minutes
You say you’ll rest once this busy spell is over. We have seen too many such spells; they run end to end.