Destinations

Twelve countries, countless slow mornings

Each country below opens into its own collection of destination guides — written from our own journeys, with the stays, seasons and small kindnesses we would tell a friend.

01 · 4 guides

Croatia

Turquoise coves, stone walls and island light

Croatia is the Adriatic at its most enchanting — a coast of walled medieval towns, pine-fringed islands and water so clear it seems lit from within. It is gentle on families, easy to island-hop by ferry, and at its golden best in the shoulder months when the sea is warm and the lanes are quiet.

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02 · 4 guides

France

Lavender, markets and the art of the long lunch

France invented the art of travelling well, and it still practises it daily — in market squares at dawn, in two-hour lunches under plane trees, in villages so pretty they seem staged. For families, it offers the holy trinity: space, food and a culture that believes children belong at the table.

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03 · 4 guides

Greece

Whitewashed villages and warm Aegean water

Greece is hospitality as an art form. Taverna owners will whisk your children into the kitchen, the sea stays warm well into October, and the light — that impossible Aegean light — makes every photograph look like a memory already.

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04 · 4 guides

Iceland

Fire, ice and the world’s quietest light

Iceland is landscape as theatre — volcanoes, glaciers, geysers and black-sand beaches arranged across an island the size of a small state. It is safe, family-friendly and astonishingly easy to drive, with a hot spring never far from the road.

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05 · 4 guides

Italy

Slow mornings, long lunches, golden light

Italy rewards the unhurried. It is a country best measured in long lunches, evening passeggiate and the quiet joy of a piazza at dusk — and it is remarkably gentle on families, with children welcomed at every table.

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06 · 4 guides

Morocco

Spice markets, blue villages and starlit dunes

Morocco is a country that floods the senses — saffron and mint in the souks, the call to prayer echoing over rooftops, and the Sahara glowing rose at dusk. With a little planning it is a wonderful family adventure: riads with cool courtyards, kind hosts, and a culture that delights in children.

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07 · 4 guides

New Zealand

Fjords, ferns and the kindest light

New Zealand packs an impossible range of landscape into two islands — fjords and glaciers, geysers and beaches, mountains and vineyards — all joined by the easiest road trips on earth. It is safe, uncrowded and made for slow family wandering.

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08 · 4 guides

Peru

Andean peaks, ancient citadels and Pacific light

Peru is a country of staggering variety — Pacific coast, high Andes and Amazon rainforest, layered with the remains of civilisations a thousand years old. It rewards families who travel slowly: gentle acclimatisation, kind people, and sights that genuinely live up to the photographs.

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09 · 4 guides

Portugal

Tiled streets, Atlantic light, custard tarts

Portugal is Europe’s gentlest corner — a country of tiled facades, clattering trams and long Atlantic beaches, where the pace is unhurried, the wine is kind, and families are folded into daily life as if they had always belonged.

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10 · 4 guides

Spain

Sun-warmed plazas, slow tapas and the blue Mediterranean

Spain is a country that runs on warmth — of light, of welcome, of long afternoons that stretch into evenings without anyone noticing. From the Balearic coves to the Andalusian coast, it folds families into its rhythm with ease: late lunches under awnings, evening strolls through flower-scented lanes, and a culture that treats a child at the table as the most natural thing in the world.

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11 · 4 guides

Switzerland

Alpine air, mirror lakes and storybook villages

Switzerland is nature arranged with care — peaks that look drawn, lakes like glass, and trains that climb impossible gradients to arrive exactly on time. It is expensive, yes, but for families it may be the easiest mountain country on earth.

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12 · 4 guides

Thailand

Golden temples, warm seas and the gentlest welcome

Thailand is the country that taught the world to travel gently — golden temples, night markets, limestone islands and a culture of kindness that extends naturally to children. It is affordable, the food is a daily joy, and the beaches are as blue as the brochures promise.

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