Go slowly, stay longer
Set in a bowl of green hills in the middle of Sri Lanka, Kandy rewards the traveller who books an extra night — the temple drums at dusk, the market at 6am, and the long walk around the water that most people skip.
Tomás Vergara in Island NotebooksGetting to Ilha do Corvo takes eleven hours, one cancelled crossing and a willingness to sleep on a bench. Here is why the 214 people who live there like it that way.
Ingrid Solheim in Night TrainsA sleeper ticket costs €62 and buys you a bad night's sleep, three strangers and the best 40 minutes of light you will see all year, somewhere past Passau.
Dele Bamiduro in Field KitchenTwo blades, a hot plate and thirty-one years of practice. A morning in a Kandy street kitchen, written down as faithfully as a recipe without numbers allows.
Rasha Idrissi in Island NotebooksAfter 43 border crossings I have stopped optimising and started subtracting. The current list runs to 27 items, and three of them are chargers.
