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Travel & MusingsEst. 2010
2010 — 2026
The Archive · MMX — MMXXVI

Sixteen years,
by the year.

A retrospective across both notebooks. Click through to anything still standing. Forgive the early years their excesses; they were trying.

16 Years
142 Pieces, both volumes
86 Travel · Vol. I
56 Musings · Vol. II
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'26
MMXXVI
04 Travel 09 Musings

The year of opening two front doors instead of one.

  1. 20 May The trick to a long lunch is to forget that you ordered it Musings · 018
  2. 14 May Airports at five in the morning are confessional Musings · 017
  3. 02 May On souvenirs, and the small objects we ask too much of Musings · 016
  4. 21 Apr Sentences I keep re-reading Musings · 015
  5. 15 Jan Third Night at the Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix Travel · Long read
  6. 09 Jan 2nd Night in Las Vegas — The Paddock Experience Travel · Long read
'25
MMXXV
14 Travel 11 Musings

A year of trains, deliberately. Less to say, said better.

  1. 28 Nov First Night at the LVGP — A Masterclass in What Not to Do Travel · Long read
  2. 04 Oct The second-coffee hour is the only honest one Musings · 014
  3. 22 Aug Stelvio in fog — a slow climb, no music Travel · Field
  4. 06 Jul Quiet rooms I keep going back to Musings · 013
  5. 12 Apr Sleeper, Inverness to London — seven hours of dark Travel · Long read
  6. 15 Feb A list of questionable habits I will not give up Musings · 012
'24
MMXXIV
11 Travel 08 Musings

The year I tried to stop writing about food and failed gracefully.

  1. 16 Nov Ghent — A Journey Through Time & Tradition Travel · Long read
  2. 22 Sep On not taking the photograph Musings · 011
  3. 06 Aug Cinque Terre at 5 a.m. — the part nobody photographs Travel · Field
  4. 10 May A theory of second cities Musings · 010
'23
MMXXIII
12 Travel 07 Musings

Mostly Lisbon. Mostly walking. Mostly correct.

  1. 14 Oct 28 up the hill — a love letter to Lisbon trams Travel · Long read
  2. 02 Jul A short note on silences in conversation Musings · 009
  3. 18 Apr Mont Blanc, first tracks Travel · Field
'18 — '22
MMX — MMXXII
45 Travel 21 Musings

The early years. Loud, often wrong, occasionally good. Pinned highlights below — the full set lives in each notebook.

  1. 2022 · Dec Edinburgh by sleeper, twice Travel · Pinned
  2. 2021 · Aug First entry that I'd still publish today Musings · Pinned
  3. 2019 · Sep Monza — the first paddock pass I lost on the way home Travel · Pinned
  4. 2010 · Mar Entry № 001 — why I started writing this down Musings · 001