Delphine Roy

Editor

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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An ancient Greek temple with carved figures serving as columns

Culture

Athens Is Not Only Marble

A child looking out of a train corridor window at the passing landscape

Slow Travel

Train or Plane: The Honest Maths

The curved brick arcades and tiled bridges of Plaza de Espana in Seville

City Guides

Seville in the Shade

A tall waterfall falling over a green cliff with a path leading behind it

Outdoors

Four Waterfalls and a Wet Coat

Walkers on a stony mountain path with peaks and forest behind

Slow Travel

One Stage of the Camino

A mountain road switchbacking up a steep green slope in the sun

Road Trips

Nine Passes, One Tank

A dark wooden cabin on a grass slope with mountains behind

Stays

A Cabin With No Road to It

Ferries crossing the water below the Galata tower in Istanbul

Culture

Istanbul on Both Shores

A dark mountain glen under heavy cloud with a river running through it

Outdoors

The Case for the Wrong Month

A quiet lane of wooden machiya houses in Kyoto at dusk

City Guides

Kyoto Before Seven

A still Highland loch below bare hills under grey cloud

Outdoors

Cold Water, Warm Car

A Sicilian harbour town of pale stone buildings on a rocky headland

Slow Travel

A Month in One Sicilian Town