Italy · Field note
An argument for the Amalfi shoulder season
Late September on the coast: the lemon groves are still warm, the boats no longer queue at Capri, and the better tables open up again.
By Marco Bellini··6 min read
The Journal · Issue 04
Field notes from the road.
Slow writing about the places we know best — what's worth the detour, what's overrated, and what we're packing this season.
Japan · Walking
Twelve quiet temples in Kyoto, walked at dawn
A morning route through the eastern hills that begins before the bus tours and ends, properly, with breakfast somewhere small.
By Hana Saito··8 min
Patagonia · Dispatch
Three days under the granite at Torres del Paine
We sent a writer south with a wool jumper and a notebook. He came back with this — and a quiet conviction that the W is worth its weather.
By FTT Editorial Desk··7 min
Morocco · Address book
How to spend a slow week inside the Marrakech medina
Where to drink mint tea, which riads to ask for by name, and the quiet square nobody seems to mention in the guidebooks.
By FTT Editorial Desk··5 min