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Nomad Trails

Dispatches from the long way round · Issue 41
Nomad Trails
Long reads

Six weeks on the old salt road, and what it costs to get lost properly

Our editor walked a trade route that stopped being a trade route four hundred years ago. Here is the map, the mistakes and the eleven villages that are still on it.

Reader letter, March

Field notes

The night bus economy

What twenty-eight hours in a shared sleeper teaches you about a country.

Routes

Eating alone, well

A defence of the single table by the window and the menu you cannot read.

Gear

The case for going back

Why returning to the same place ten times beats seeing ten places once.

This issue

Stories from the last four weeks

Long reads

The night bus economy

What twenty-eight hours in a shared sleeper teaches you about a country.

4 min read
Field notes

Eating alone, well

A defence of the single table by the window and the menu you cannot read.

5 min read
Routes

The case for going back

Why returning to the same place ten times beats seeing ten places once.

6 min read

One long read, every other Sunday

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Reader letter, March