Lisbon
Portugal
Noto
Sicily
Marrakech
Morocco
Amalfi
Italy
Go far,
arrive slowly
Slow journeys around the Mediterranean — one place at a time.
Choose your slow route
Noto, Sicily
Baroque after the buses leave
Lisbon, Portugal
Trams, tiles, long light
Marrakech, Morocco
The medina before eight
The Cyclades, Greece
Whitewash and slow harbours
Amalfi, Italy
Lemon terraces above the sea
Andalusia, Spain
Patios and late, late dinners
Puglia, Italy
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What the olive harvest taught me about time
Nobody in the grove was in a hurry, and by the third morning neither was I.
Somewhere in Puglia
I stay a day longer
than the itinerary says
I’m Lena — I write about travel that refuses to hurry. Meridiana is a journal of long lunches, night trains and the places guidebooks rush past.
No twelve-stop itineraries, no sights ticked off before noon. Just slow mornings, the grandmothers’ lunch table, and everything written down while it is still warm.
Lena
11Years on the road
140+Long lunches
9Countries
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Most-loved escapes
Destinations
Marrakech before eight o'clock
The medina at dawn belongs to bread, cats, and the last hour of cool air. It is a different city — arguably the real one.
Destinations
Noto, after the tour buses leave
Sicily's baroque jewel belongs to day-trippers until five o'clock. Then the light turns to honey, and the town goes back to its owners.
Food
Eat where the grandmothers eat
Forget the review apps. In any market town from Seville to Palermo, there is one infallible restaurant critic, and she is seventy-four.
Guides
The half-empty bag: packing for slow travel
Every seasoned traveller preaches packing light. Slow travel asks for something slightly different: packing incomplete.
Guides
Twelve kilometres a day: a rule for coast paths
The distance is not the achievement. On a coastal path, twelve kilometres is the speed at which a landscape starts talking.
The itinerary is the enemy of the journey
— from the journal, April 2026
plan slow!
Five rituals that make any trip feel like a retreat
Small habits that turn an itinerary back into a journey:
✦ The second coffee — never skip it
✦ Twelve kilometres a day, on foot
✦ The half-empty bag rule
Popular destinations
Six places we keep returning to — and the long way round to each of them.
Lisbon
Marrakech
Sicily
Islands
Amalfi
Andalusia
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