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A Bandung street seen through a green minibus window
You Don’t Miss the City You Miss Who You Were There
Returning to a beloved city means meeting the distance between a place that kept moving and a self you thought it had kept safe. Read more...
The Airport You Want to Arrive At
The Airport You Want to Arrive At
Taste · Travelogue · No. 07 The Airport You Want to Arrive At An airport is a country's opening sentence, delivered to every visitor before a single word is exchanged.... Read more...
The Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam at sunset
Rotterdam, from Memory
The city that was bombed flat and chose to become the future: cube houses, harbor wind, Maas light, and the evenings the house still carries. Some cities you visit. Some... Read more...
An old shophouse window in Malacca
Melaka, the Old Trade Wind
For a century, nearly every scented material on earth changed hands in one straits port. Walking Melaka as a perfumer's pilgrimage. Read more...
A traditional temple in Kyoto in early light
Kyoto at Six in the Morning
The most visited city in Japan, empty. Temple smoke, wet stone, the first kissaten of the day: a sensory record of Kyoto before the crowd arrives. Read more...
Passengers boarding a train at Bandung station
Thirty Minutes to Bandung
The high-speed train quietly rewired weekend culture: day trips, coffee crawls, home by dinner. What speed does to a city's gravity, written from seat 4A. Read more...
Sunset over a Bali beach
Weekend Report: Seminyak, After the Crowd
Taste · Travelogue · No. 02. Forty-eight hours in Seminyak, recorded by the nose: incense, salt, frangipani and the hour the beach empties. Read more...
Malioboro street at night, Yogyakarta
Weekend Report: Yogyakarta in the Rain
Taste · Travelogue · No. 01. Forty-eight hours in Yogyakarta, recorded by the nose instead of the camera. Read more...