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Two-Base Europe Trips: Fewer Hotel Moves, Better Vacations
(5 minute read)
The case for a two-base trip: pick two smart home bases, connect them by fast train, fly open-jaw, and add easy day-trips, so you pack once, move less, and spend the savings on better rooms. Includes six 10-to-12-day templates (Paris and Provence, London and Paris, Rome and Florence, and more) and a simple day-by-day rhythm.
Why Travel Makes You Feel More Like Yourself
(6 minute read)
Travel is sold on what you'll see, but the real gift is what it does to you while you're looking: the permission to slow down, the presence you can't fake, the strangers who become the trip, and the quiet confidence of handling yourself somewhere new. A traveler's case for the slower kind of trip.
7 Reasons You Should Never Go Abroad (Unless You Like Joy)
(7 minute read)
A tongue-in-cheek case against travel: airports, jet lag, strange food, scams, and crowds, and the true stories that prove every "disaster" abroad is really the best part.
Slow Travel Isn't About Time
(6 minute read)
I remember nothing from the Paris tour bus and everything from the two slow moments around it. Why slow travel is a way of paying attention, not a luxury of time.
Cruise Ships Suck.
(6 minute read)
Cruise ships emptied thousands of people into Split every day of our week there. They took photos, filled the tours, left their garbage, and sailed at four. Here is what they missed, why no operator is doing this responsibly, and why we won't plan around it.
The Corsica Trip We'd Never Plan for You
(17 minute read)
August 2022: an overnight ferry we were too cheap to sleep on, a village festival we found on a wall, and a hike we began at 11:30 in August. The founding trip of our agency, and why we'd redo half of it.
The Best Thing We Ever Did in Paris Was Have No Plan
(7 minute read)
Two travel planners argue against the Paris itinerary. Aimless walking that takes twenty minutes to stop feeling like a waste, the café as a pause rather than a destination, and the night a shopkeeper in the 20th locked up at midnight and took us dancing. Plus what spontaneity costs.
Can I Go?
(11 minute read)
Jonas's story, in his words. A conversion van in Texas, years in the back of band vans, an accidental career building sets for Broadway and the Rolling Stones, and the three words that kept opening doors: can I go? How a musician from Dallas ended up planning trips from a village in Burgundy.
Becoming Tripologiste
(9 minute read)
Paul's story, in his words. A Burgundian childhood spent half in Texas, a cycling pilgrimage retracing his grandfather's route, an unplanned week in Corsica that changed how we plan everything, and the first clients who turned a passion into a company. Where leaving space for magic came from.