Places · 6 min read
Six small hotels I keep sending people to
None of them are on the front page of any magazine. All of them will remember your name by day two.
June 28, 2026
The Journal
Notes from the road.
A running letter from Ekaterina — small hotels, long tables, the tomato she'll never stop talking about, and the occasional unpopular opinion.
6 posts
Notes · 4 min read
On going slow (and why I stopped counting cities)
A note on the quiet luxury of doing less on a trip — and why the best day I had last year had nothing in it.
July 12, 2026
Letters · 5 min read
Letter from the Cyclades
Dispatches from a slow August — donkeys, boats that don't run on time, and the best tomato I've ever eaten.
June 4, 2026
Guides · 7 min read
The Lisbon list (that I actually use)
Not the twenty-things-to-do version. Just the places I keep going back to, in the order I walk them.
May 18, 2026
Notes · 4 min read
Kyoto in the rain is better
An unpopular opinion after two spring seasons of watching people fight over the same photo of the same tree.
April 22, 2026
Notes · 5 min read
The long table — a note on the dinners I plan
Why so many of my trips end at a table for twelve in someone's home, and why I think you should say yes.
March 30, 2026