About
A small philosophy of travel.
The why, the how, and the long answer to what have you been up to.
About the journey
I do not collect destinations.
I collect memories.
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 ✦
How the notebook grew
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.
✦ Words to travel by ✦
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”