Bristol, EnglandStories 7
- ES
Lisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026Santiago 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.
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- PT
Lisbon to Galicia, slowlyMay 2026Porto, 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.
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- 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.
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- JP
JapanMar 2023Hiroshima, quietly
We went to Hiroshima for the history and stayed for the people, the island and the best pancake in Japan.
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- 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.
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- IT
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.
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- 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.
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