Islands · December 2025
Nine days on a timetable that does not hold
The Outer Hebrides after the last of the coaches have gone, when the ferry is a suggestion and the light lasts from nine until three.
Issue fourteen · Summer 2026
Issue fourteen · Summer 2026
Overland · May 2026
Europe rebuilt its sleeper network and then discovered that the people who wanted it were not the people it had been costed for. Twelve hours from Brussels, in a berth that costs more than the flight.
Islands · December 2025
The Outer Hebrides after the last of the coaches have gone, when the ferry is a suggestion and the light lasts from nine until three.
Harvest · February 2026
Inland Andalusia sells its blossom season to photographers and its harvest to nobody. The harvest is the better fortnight.
On foot · October 2025
Walking the Mosel out of season, where every second guesthouse is shut and the ones that are open have the whole river to themselves.
From the editor
We are asked this often enough that it belongs on the front page. A monthly travel magazine has to send writers somewhere every month, which means it commissions against a calendar rather than against a place. What comes back is a description of a trip that was arranged in order to be described.
Two issues a year lets a piece wait for its season. The almond feature in this issue was proposed in 2024 and sat until the writer could be there for the harvest rather than the blossom, which is a fourteen-month gap for a fortnight of work. That is an absurd way to run a publication and it is the only way we know of to get the piece right.
It also means we can afford to send one person for three weeks instead of six people for four days. Everything in this issue was reported in person, at the time of year described, by somebody who paid for their own ticket and was reimbursed afterwards.
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