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Delphine Roy

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Files from the slow end of the timetable: night trains, coastal paths, and the towns one stop before the one everybody photographs. Ten years of it, in the season each route is written about, which is why the notes on weather are the long ones.

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The Arco da Rua Augusta across the width of Praça do Comércio in Lisbon

City Guides

Lisbon in Three Hills

Huts on a green alpine ridge below the grey spires of the Dolomites

Outdoors

Hut to Hut in the Dolomites

A view from a train window across fields at low sun

Slow Travel

The Night Train Still Wins

A road running into low sun across an empty Icelandic plain

Road Trips

The Ring Road, Anticlockwise

A wooden mountain hut on a green saddle below rocky peaks

Stays

A Refuge at 2,300 Metres

The Grand Canal in Venice with boats and a domed church at the far end

Culture

Venice, After They Go Home

Clothes and packing cubes arranged in an open suitcase

Slow Travel

Two Weeks in One Bag

Colourful houses stacked above the Douro riverfront in Porto

City Guides

Porto Between the Bridges

Mist coming off the sea against the steep green cliffs of the Faroes

Outdoors

The Faroes Walk Themselves

A ferry crossing a deep Norwegian fjord between steep grey cliffs

Slow Travel

Norway by Ferry, Not by Car

A river winding through a wide green Highland glen

Road Trips

The North Coast, Slowly

A tiled courtyard with a central fountain and horseshoe arches

Stays

The Riad Worth the Alley