Seasons
A week in Hokkaido in February, by train, from Sapporo to the drift ice
A seven-day winter route across Hokkaido by rail: snow, hot springs and the drift ice on the Okhotsk coast, with layering advice and the delays to plan around.
Slow travel, overland
Top bunk, window seat, no regrets
Night trains with questionable pillows, a month on a windy coast and one very long ferry. Practical guides for people who think the journey is half the point, and who pack earplugs.
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Rail routes
Belgrade to the Adriatic by rail: eleven hours, 250 tunnels, then the sea
The Belgrade to Bar line, leg by leg: what the journey is really like, where to sit, what to bring and what it cost us in late spring.
Rail routes
Porto to San Sebastián without a plane, and why we stopped flying short-haul
An essay on giving up short flights, told through one slow route along the north of Iberia: five legs, four nights, what it cost and what it gave back.
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