The journal
Notes from the road.
Field notes from our planners — written by the people who live where you are going. New pieces published quietly, when there is something worth saying.
The shrine at sunset, not noon — and other Kyoto rules our planners live by.
Eight rules for a city that punishes urgency, from the planner who has watched the same well-meaning mistake repeat itself for fifteen years.
8 min read · Sakura Tanaka · April 2026
The Paris that opens before nine.
There is a two-hour window each morning when the city belongs to the people who live here. Almost every first day we design happens inside it.
7 min read · Camille Laurent · June 2026
Inside the riad we keep almost to ourselves.
Marrakech is a city of two volumes. Almost everything we plan there depends on what happens behind a four-hundred-year-old door when it closes.
6 min read · Yasmin Idrissi · April 2026
A guide to the Westfjords when nobody is there.
Iceland’s problem is not Iceland. It is the Ring Road. We pull travellers off it on day three and point them northwest.
5 min read · Sigrún Arnarsdóttir · April 2026
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If any of these pieces leave you wondering, our planners would be glad to talk. A short conversation. No pressure. No template.