A slow travel collection
ExploreandWrite
Guides, routes, six live maps and two working planners, gathered into one place — about staying somewhere long enough to be bored by it, and writing the whole thing down.
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- Pieces
- 25
- Live maps
- 6
- Languages
- 16
- Phrases
- 2,064
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Chasing 72°
A one-year eastbound loop — Oaxaca, Essaouira, Windhoek, Chiang Mai — that never leaves the 65–80°F band.
Read onThe Master Map
Every place in the collection on one canvas — hubs, hotspots, bucket-list entries and routes, layered and filterable.
Read onExpat Hotspots of the World
The full 2026 reference: what it costs, how long you're allowed to stay, and whether anyone else is there.
Read onThe Slow Travel Phrasebook
Sixteen languages, 129 phrases each, with pronunciation. Search it, switch languages, read it anywhere.
Read onChasing 72°
A one-year eastbound loop — Oaxaca, Essaouira, Windhoek, Chiang Mai — that never leaves the 65–80°F band.
Read onA Central America Winter Route
Three months through the strongest dry-season window the isthmus has. Three bases, three moves, no flights between countries.
Read onArriving in Southeast Asia in December
A week-by-week arrival plan with a long layover deliberately parked at the midpoint. December is the best month Thailand has.
Read onThe Jetlag-Split Strategy
Twelve time zones is a fortnight of ruined mornings. Split into two six-hour chunks with a week in between, it is almost nothing.
Read onChasing 72° — Live Route Map
The loop drawn out, month by month, with the temperature band plotted against every base.
Read onThe Master Map
Every place in the collection on one canvas — hubs, hotspots, bucket-list entries and routes, layered and filterable.
Read onWorld Bucket List
The places worth building a year around, mapped and annotated.
Read onExpat Hotspots of the World
Eighty-odd cities plotted against cost, visa allowance and existing community.
Read onGlobal Short-Trip Home Bases
The cities with the densest ring of cheap one-to-four-hour destinations around them.
Read onEpic Train Journeys
The rail lines worth taking for their own sake, drawn across the world.
Read onSurf & Scuba Hotspots
Breaks and reefs, with the seasons that make each one worth showing up for.
Read onExpat Hotspots of the World
The full 2026 reference: what it costs, how long you're allowed to stay, and whether anyone else is there.
Read onHow to Get Residency
Five questions that eliminate eighty percent of the options, then the country-by-country paperwork for what's left.
Read onGlobal Short-Trip Home Bases
Best city per region for setting up a temporary base with a dense ring of weekend destinations.
Read onKeeping Track of Your Visa Clocks
Schengen's rolling 180 days and every other clock that can quietly expire underneath you — how each one actually counts, plus a blank log to keep your own.
Read onHealth & Insurance Prep
Vaccinations, the insurance clauses that actually matter, and what to settle six to eight weeks before departure.
Read onHotel Points for Slow Travellers
Loyalty programs were built for weekly business travellers. Long stays break them open in your favour.
Read onAirline Stopover Programs
A deliberate break of more than 24 hours, at no extra airfare. Which carriers still allow it, and on what terms.
Read onHow to Run a Flight Deal Watchlist
Watching four routes beats searching fifty. How to pick the corridors worth an alert, calibrate what a good price actually is, and know when to stop waiting.
Read onMoney, Mail and a Home on Paper
Cards that refund every ATM fee, mail that follows you across borders, the 28-night booking rule, and the two capitals that let you stay a whole year.
Read onThe International Driving Permit
A $20 translation booklet, legally required in about a dozen European countries and useless on its own — plus the twelve-month expiry that only bites people who leave for longer than a holiday.
Read onThe Slow Travel Phrasebook
Sixteen languages, 129 phrases each, with pronunciation. Search it, switch languages, read it anywhere.
Read onSay It Well and They Answer Fast
How many phrases a traveller actually needs, the objection that says none of them help — and the two-phrase habit that turns the rest into something usable.
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