Despatches from the Field

Field Notes.

Sharp opinions on travel, the world, and the industry itself.

How to Plan a Multigenerational Family Trip

How to Plan a Multigenerational Family Trip Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Family)

At some point, someone in your family will have the idea. It usually starts with good intentions and a significant birthday, and ends with the question nobody wants to answer: but who is going to organise it?

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The Tyranny of the Must-See

The Tyranny of the “Must-See”

There is a particular kind of holiday that looks, from the outside, like a fabulous success. You went to Florence. You saw the David. You returned home with a camera roll that proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that you had been to Florence.

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Why We Want You to Waste Our Time

Why We Want You to Waste Our Time

The message we receive most often starts with an apology. “I hope this isn’t too premature.” “We don’t have dates yet.” It is, without question, the most unnecessary sentence in the English language.

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What It Means to Go Back

What It Means to Go Back: Americans Returning to Ancestral Homelands in Europe

There’s a TikTok trend gaining momentum: Americans in their twenties and thirties posting videos from Italian apartments, Scottish flats, Irish terraces. What unites them is the same reason their great-grandparents departed a century ago.

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Why the Wellness Retreat Ruined Women's Travel

Why the Wellness Retreat Ruined Women’s Travel

Women now make 82% of travel decisions and control roughly $73 billion in annual travel spending. Somewhere after 2010, the industry saw a shift — and responded almost exclusively with the wellness retreat.

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Why Peregrina Is the Best Luxury Travel Planner

Why Peregrina Travel Co is the Best Luxury Travel Planner

Here’s a radical idea: what if your travel planner actually knew who you were? We’re small. Deliberately, unapologetically small. And we think that is precisely the point.

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Luxury Isn't Dead, It Just Moved Into a Farmhouse

Luxury Isn’t Dead, It Just Moved Into a Farmhouse

Luxury is no longer announced by marble foyers or crystal chandeliers, but by acreage, mud, and the illusion of simplicity. The new prestige lies in trading manicured lawns for meadows and polished spas for wood-fired tubs set in fields.

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The Myth of the Perfect Season

The Myth of the Perfect Season (And Why You Should Stop Listening to It)

There’s a particular smugness that creeps into travel advice the moment anyone utters the phrase “best time to visit.” This cult of the Perfect Season has become so widespread that many people now believe it’s irresponsible to travel at the “wrong” time.

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Why Private Travel Doesn't Mean Private Jet

Why “Private Travel” Doesn’t Always Mean Private Jet—And Why That’s a Good Thing

Some words arrive already heavy with assumptions. “Private travel” is one of those phrases. Say it aloud and most people immediately conjure the same scene. But here’s the strange, less photogenic truth: the jet is not the story.

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