Bristol, EnglandStories 5
- 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 2026The 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.
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- 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.
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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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- IT
Sleeper to SicilySept 2019Palermo, 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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