A mountain landscape at dusk with a building and pagoda in the foreground, rugged mountains in the background, and a dark blue sky.

A travel publication devoted to the slow, the evocative & the remote.

Curated stays & field guides for those who travel beyond the obvious.

Founded by Nicholas Holt

Silence & Solitude


Stays

Bookmarked for curiosity or potential trips

Stories

Encounters with silence & solitude
Reading silence & solitude: a personal list

Books

Cape Wrath: After the
Day–Trippers have Gone

A Stay at Cape Wrath lighthouse reveals the old-world wonder of a remote headland steeped in myth and folklore.

A person with a white beret on their head standing among a group of horses in an outdoor setting with snow-capped mountains in the background.

Forty Minutes
a Gaucho

At Estancia Nibepo Aike in the Argentine wilderness—tasting the rhythm of a life unchanged for a century.

THREE
GLASSES

Nothing about Tuareg tea is hurried, and nothing needs to be explained