✦ Vol. I · A Travel Journal
Every journey leaves a story worth telling.
About the journey
This is not a travel booking website. It is a personal journal — a slow archive of journeys, photographs, field notes, and the small details that make a place stay with you.
— keeping a notebook, since 2018 —
I travel because the world is too interesting to read about second-hand. I write because a place is twice as good when you have to look at it carefully enough to put it into a sentence.
This website is the long version of a notebook I have been keeping for years — stories from journeys across continents, with photographs, itineraries, maps and reflections kept alongside the small embarrassments and unexpected kindnesses that any real trip is full of.
The aim is simple: a slow, beautiful, honest archive of somewhere I have been. So that the journeys, eventually, outlast the trip itself.
A small philosophy
“The best souvenirs are the ones you cannot pack.”
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Notebook pages filled
✦ A timeline ✦
2018
A first solo trip
A weekend that turned into a way of thinking. Goa, in monsoon.
2019
The Himalaya, properly
First high-altitude trek. The mountain set a higher bar than I expected.
2021
A long pause
A year of staying home and writing about places I had already been.
2023
Across Europe
A summer of trains, a notebook a week, a quieter way to travel.
2025
Kenya & Meghalaya
Two extremes — the wide savannah and the green of monsoon hills.
2026
Switzerland
The Alpine Diary — the journey this site was built around.
Featured journeys
The most recent journeys, each with their own chapter — photographs, day-by-day notes, maps and a long reflection at the end.
14 – 23 May 2026 · 10 days
The Alpine Diary & The Long Way Home
Ten days that began in the Swiss Alps and quietly turned into a slow drive home through Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France — turquoise lakes, glacier light, gothic spires and a city of canals.
Read the story→
28 November – 10 December 2025 · 13 days
Kaziranga grasslands, Khasi hills, a river you can see through
Thirteen days through India’s northeast — one-horned rhinos in the tall grass of Kaziranga, a slow loop across the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, and a river you can see straight to the bottom of.
Read the story→
July 2025 · 5 days
The wide quiet of the savannah
Five days following the migration through the Mara — dust at dawn, lions in long grass, and the largest sky I have ever stood under.
Read the story→
April 2025 · 7 days
A summit at fifteen thousand feet
Seven days to a Himalayan summit — oak forests, frozen rivers, a midnight start and a sunrise above the cloud line.
Read the story→
The atlas
Click any pin to open the story. The routes between them — flights, trains, drives, treks — are the long answer to the question what have you been up to.
Charting the map…
From the notebook
Not everything fits inside a journey page. Some thoughts live on their own, in this slowly-growing notebook.
Essay · 3 min read
Every trip teaches us something — not only through the places we visit, but also through the people we meet. A short piece on the friends and strangers who made this Europe trip what it was.
Travel notes · 3 min read
Switzerland was exactly how we had seen it in photographs — maybe even better in real life. Notes on clean cities, calm mountains, and the friends made along the way.
Travel notes · 4 min read
A practical list for a week in Switzerland, in May, written by someone who has overpacked many times.
Essay · 6 min read
A short essay on collecting memories instead of destinations, and on the small discipline of keeping a notebook.
Field notes · 5 min read
The Umngot at low water is something between a river and a sheet of plate glass. A short piece on the village around it.
Photo gallery
A small selection from the road. Click any photograph to open it large.
✦ Words to travel by ✦
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”