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Mount Rinjani rising above low cloud and misty palm forest, seen across green rice fields in Lombok
Field notes
17 September 2026

Lombok, almost like home

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

Secluded turquoise cove on Astypalea, Greece, with a rocky shore and scrub-covered hills above the Aegean Sea
Behind the journey
18 October 2026

How we design your trip with you

We live where we design trips. Here’s how we plan yours around you, from the first conversation to the final itinerary.

People with green nets wade through rock pools at low tide on Seger beach during Bau Nyale, clouds reflected in the water.
Dispatch
24 September 2026

Bau Nyale festival: when the sea gives a princess back

About the morning I joined thousands of people wading into the dark to catch sea worms in Lombok.

A street lamp glows against a grey evening sky above the buildings of the port of Piraeus, Greece.
Field notes
20 October 2026

A choreography of docking

Notes from someone who still gets a thrill from catching a ferry in Greece.

Steel coral restoration frames overgrown with young coral on a shallow reef in Lombok, Indonesia.
Conversation
28 October 2026

‘Most of the work is maintenance and cleaning’: the unglamorous truth about coral restoration in Lombok

We talked with a small Lombok foundation that is teaching Indonesians to restore their reefs

Editor’s choice

Abandoned whitewashed ruins under a tree on a secret Gili island off Lombok, Indonesia, with the sea and hills behind
Essay

Why we almost stopped travelling

A founding essay on privilege, doubt, and why we kept going
03 November 2026

Nothing here just yet. The best discoveries take time.

Destinations

Weathered balustraded house on a pebble shore in the Mani, by a still bay below scrubby hills and a grey sky

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 woman taking a picture

Indonesia

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

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