Vignettes

Our brand is about a specific sensibility, a way of experiencing the world on an intimate scale and at a human pace, a passionate commitment to the search for authenticity and meaning, and a belief that life’s adventures should be savoured slowly rather than merely consumed. These are our stories.


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Paris Long Weekends

Surely this is one of the great joys in life, to work your way as a couple through the challenge of how to spend 48 hours in Paris.

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Icelandic Cool

Iceland is a primordial landscape that approximates what the world must have felt like when it was first being born - the very ground is alive, hissing and crackling with elemental energy.

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Newfoundland Adventure

Newfoundland exists in another dimension of reality, where icebergs bounce down the coast, whales frolic in the frigid waters, and the people are so deeply real that it jars the senses.

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Utah Family Adventure

When I told friends that I was heading to Utah for March break, they all asked which mountain I was skiing—which made me realize that my well laid plans for a week of hiking may have been a little misguided…

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India with the Family

A few years ago, I took my entire family of five to India for a so-called “research trip”, and we’ve only recently recovered from the lingering aftershocks of the experience.

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