Japan
Kyoto
Temple mornings, machiya townhouses and the shinkansen doing the heavy lifting.
Best: Mar – May · Oct – Nov
Destinations
We do not pretend to know everywhere. This is the list where we can tell you the right month, the right neighbourhood and the thing nobody mentions until you arrive.
Short-haul, rail-linked, easy to combine.
Long-haul with stopovers worth planning.
Where visa preparation matters most.
Multi-city routings and open jaws.
Japan
Temple mornings, machiya townhouses and the shinkansen doing the heavy lifting.
Best: Mar – May · Oct – Nov
Portugal
Short-haul, long light. Easy to pair with the Alentejo coast.
Best: Apr – Jun · Sep
South Africa
Table Mountain at dawn, then the winelands an hour inland.
Best: Nov – Mar
Iceland
We plan around weather windows, not fixed dates.
Best: Sep – Mar for aurora
Morocco
Riads inside the medina, with a driver who knows the gates.
Best: Oct – Apr
Italy
Ferries over roads. We book the boat before the hotel.
Best: May – Jun · Sep
Türkiye
A stopover that deserves four nights, not four hours.
Best: Apr – Jun · Sep – Nov
New Zealand
Long flights done properly — we build in a stopover that helps.
Best: Dec – Mar
Somewhere not listed? Ask anyway — between the eleven of us we have covered a great deal more than this page, and we will tell you plainly if we are not the right people for it.
Pick a place
Half of planning a good trip is going at the right time of year. That part of the conversation is free.