Bristol, England
LatestLatest ·Post12 Sept 2026
How we run Tripchron (the boring bit, made slightly less boring)
Readers keep asking how a blog this small has its own address, ads and a shade of blue nobody else has. Here's the whole set-up.
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- Post22 Aug 2026
What we actually packed for a toddler
The list we wish we'd had: what earned its place in the bag over three weeks, and the eleven things that came home unused.
Family1 min read
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Lisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026Twenty-three nights, one toddler, two regrets
What the whole trip cost, what we'd change, and the flight home, during which Pip was perfect and I was not.
Family1 min read - ES
Lisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026The beach you need a permit for
White sand, clear water, no cars and no shops, forty minutes by boat from Vigo, and you need the government's permission to go. It is worth the paperwork.
Nature1 min read
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Santiago in the rain, which is to say Santiago
Pilgrims walk for a month to get here. We drove for four hours with a toddler and felt we had earned it more.
Food & drink2 min read
- PTLisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026
The slowest train in Portugal is also the best
Two and a half hours from Porto to Pinhão, along a river so beautiful the train seems to slow down out of respect.
Food & drink1 min read
- PTLisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026
Porto, in which Teo goes home
Teo left Porto when he was nine. He came back with a wife, a daughter, and the strong belief that everything was smaller.
Food & drink1 min read
- PTLisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026
Sintra, where pushchairs go to retire
A fairytale palace on top of a mountain, reached by a bus that drives like it is being chased by one.
Hiking1 min read
- PTLisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026
Seventy-four stairs and a pastel de nata
Lisbon is built on seven hills, and our flat was at the top of the steepest one. A love letter, with complaints.
Food & drink1 min read
- PTLisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026
We are taking a two-year-old to Portugal, on purpose
Twenty-three nights, five beds, three trains, one hire car and a person who is 89 centimetres tall and has opinions about all of it.
Family1 min read
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JapanMar 2023Hiroshima, quietly
We went to Hiroshima for the history and stayed for the people, the island and the best pancake in Japan.
Food & drink1 min read
- JPJapanMar 2023
Two lines in Kyoto
On day six I went into a Kyoto pharmacy for something for a headache and came out with something else entirely.
Culture & history1 min read
- JPJapanMar 2023
Japan for people who are scared of Japan
We'd put off Japan for years because it seemed too big, too far and too clever for us. It was all three. It was also the easiest country we've ever travelled in.
City1 min read
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Sleeper to SicilySept 2019A question in Ortigia
Teo carried a ring across Europe in a sock for six days. On the seventh he dropped it in a piazza. Then he asked.
City1 min read
- ITSleeper to SicilySept 2019
Palermo, where lunch is a contact sport
Four days in a city that eats standing up, shouts in affection and has never once in two thousand years been on time.
Food & drink1 min read
- ITSleeper to SicilySept 2019
By train to Sicily, which is further than it looks
Bristol to Palermo without a plane: three days, four trains, one boat, and a train that drives onto the boat.
Road trip1 min read