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2. The Gorge and the Guesthouse

In the Zagori, the landscape is the host. A journey story from the stone villages of Epirus.

Editor’s choice

Mount Rinjani rising above low cloud and misty palm forest, seen across green rice fields in Lombok

Lombok, almost like home

An essay on finding home in a new place and carrying it with you wherever you go.

17 September 2026

Syrmata boathouses at Klima, Milos, their doors painted cobalt, ochre, and terracotta at the waterline, a fishing boat moored at the base of the painted cliff

7. Seven Days in the Western Cyclades

A journey story from Sifnos, Serifos, and Milos — the Cycladic islands that the ferry routes forgot.

A woman weaving ikat cloth on a backstrap loom in a village in eastern Flores, Indonesia

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In the weaving villages of eastern Flores, cloth is not decoration. It is genealogy, law, and prayer made visible.

Overhead view of a highland market in Bajawa, Flores, women in traditional ikat cloth selling vegetables and dried fish under palm-leaf canopies

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Every Tuesday, the highland town of Bajawa becomes a map of Flores. Field notes from the Ngada market.

Destinations

Greece

Slow travel and small-group trips in Greece: unpaved roads, quiet villages and an earthy heart beyond the postcard blue.

Woman posing on a grassy hill at Bukit Pedau , Lombok overlooking the sea at sunset with another women taking a picture

Indonesia

Indonesia is too big for one guide. We focus on the places we know well.