Everywhere so far – the trips we've taken and the trips we've planned.
Anything in orange has a story behind it – click the dot to read it.
Every one of these actually happened.
Antarctica
Five travellers from three cities, one Quark expedition, and the last continent any of them had left.
Client trip · Expedition
The Winter Games, then the mountains
Hockey in Milan, then a car over the Alps to Zermatt – one trip, two very different halves.
Field note · Jack
Patagonia, north and south
Christmas in the Lake District, then the far south – and then, instead of flying home, the family flew to the ice.
Field note · Jack
The Dolomites
Driving, hiking and cycling through the Dolomites – with a very good hotel at the end of the walking.
Sold & travelled · Road trip
Zermatt
A 60th birthday in the Swiss Alps – five days, one family, and nothing left to plan.
Client trip · Milestone
72 hours in London
Planned in five days, flown in six and a half hours. A long weekend built around a sister studying abroad.
Field note · Jack
A family weekend in Los Angeles
Malibu, Venice, a campus tour and a football game – four very different days in one weekend.
Field note · Jack
Up the coast to Savary Island
Two nights aboard from West Vancouver to Desolation Sound – humpbacks included.
Field note · Jack
48 hours in Paris
A mother-son weekend that landed on Paris Marathon Sunday – thirty thousand steps and zero wasted hours.
Field note · Jack
Adventuring across New Zealand
Three years in the making – a family sweep of the South Island, from jet boats to glaciers to the edge of Fiordland.
Field note · Jack
Island hopping in the Peloponnese
The quieter Greece – Hydra, Spetses and Monemvasia by boat, planned end to end by Butterfield & Robinson.
Field note · Jack
The minute Tel Aviv stood still
Remembrance Day into Independence Day – the whole country stops, then the whole country celebrates.
Field note · Jack
Ski & sail in the Lyngen Alps
Seven days above the Arctic Circle with a sailboat for a base camp – summits from sea level, whisky from the world's northernmost distillery.
Field note · Jack
Bikes and F1 in Emilia-Romagna
Sixty kilometres of hilltop castles by bike, then a Grand Prix at Imola.
Field note · Jack
Verbier, Val Thorens, and a night in an igloo
Five friends, two villas and no itinerary – the trip where showing up was the whole plan.
Field note · Jack
Seventeen of us at Nimmo Bay
A grandmother's 80th, seventeen family members, and a resort you can only reach by floatplane.
Field note · Jack
Swimming with Sharks in Bora Bora
Five hours by plane south of Hawaii – a week with the family, a boat out to swim with sharks, and a Tahitian luau on the last night.
Field note · Jack
Gorillas in the Volcanoes, Then the Mara
A morning with mountain gorillas above Kinigi, the Kigali Genocide Memorial, then game drives and a Masai village in the Mara.
Field note · Jack
Walking with elephants in the Golden Triangle
Three nights in a tented camp where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet – with elephants for neighbours.
Field note · Jack
A First Safari: South Africa to Mozambique
Three countries in one trip – a first safari in the Sabi Sand, days at the edge of the Okavango, then the coast in Mozambique.
Field note · Jack
Mashpi to the Galápagos
A night in Quito, an earthquake at a cloud-forest lodge over New Year's, then a week by boat through the Galápagos.
Field note · Jack
Cusco to Machu Picchu
A chocolate class and a textile workshop in Cusco, a stretch of the Inca Trail into Machu Picchu, then the Sacred Valley and the coast at Paracas.
Field note · Jack
Côte d'Azur to the Lot
Three days on the Riviera by train, then a hire car and the long road inland to the Lot – swimming off Cap Ferrat, villages after.
Field note · Laura
Venice, the Dolomites & Turin
Venice with a crowd of friends, a quiet valley outside Bolzano, then Turin – Italy's third-largest city, with almost none of the tourism.
Field note · Laura
Puglia to Monte Argentario
A trulli house outside Bari with a group of friends, then four slower nights on a cliff over the Mediterranean.
Field note · Laura
Austria & Switzerland at Christmas
Fourteen nights over the holidays, all by train – Vienna to Salzburg to the Tyrol, then over the border to St Gallen and Zurich.
Field note · Laura
Australia & New Zealand
New Year's Eve in Sydney, a wedding in Adelaide, a week down the South Island, and the Australian Open to finish.
Field note · Laura
Venice, Emilia-Romagna & the Lakes
Two weeks by train with family – Venice as a base, Bologna for the food, then Varenna, Lugano and Milan.
Field note · Laura
Three Swiss Mountain Towns
Eleven March nights with family – Wengen, Zermatt and St. Moritz, connected almost entirely by train.
Field note · Laura
Winter Sweden: Stockholm to Abisko
Eleven February nights, solo – Stockholm, Uppsala, then four nights 250 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle for the lights.
Field note · Laura
London to Edinburgh
Five days across London and Edinburgh with before-hours access – and one Glasgow night that wouldn't make the next version.
Field note · Laura
Barbados: South Coast to Sandy Lane
Four nights, two Barbados – an all-inclusive on the south coast, then Sandy Lane on the west, with sea turtles between.
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