Fourteen experiences
The reasons people remember a week
Not sights. Appointments — with a grower, a weaver, a skipper, an astronomer. Each one belongs to a region and most sit inside a journey.
Food and wine
Malvasia harvest on Salina
Pick with the family that has worked these terraces for four generations, then eat with them.
A morning, then lunch
On the water
Stromboli by night boat
Out at dusk, then sitting offshore below the Sciara del Fuoco while the volcano works.
An evening, five hours
Food and wine
Capers, salt and the Lipari kitchen
A kitchen morning built around three ingredients the islands actually live on.
Half a day
Craft and makers
The Nishijin looms
A working obi weaver's studio in the textile district, with interpreting.
Two and a half hours
Craft and makers
An hour with a knife sharpener
A third-generation sharpener, six grades of stone, and your own knife if you bring one.
An hour
Walking
The Kiso post road on foot
Tsumago to Magome and beyond, uphill, on stone-paved sections of the old highway.
Three days
Adventure
Out with the cod boat
A working boat out of Ballstad in the season, and someone cooks what you bring back.
Five hours, from first light
Culture
The blue hour, properly
Three locations at the right time of day with someone who knows which one the light is doing today.
Four hours
Wildlife
Walking with trackers
On foot at dawn with Samburu trackers and an armed guide, on private land where it is permitted.
Three to four hours at first light
Wildlife
An afternoon with the rhino unit
Time with the people who protect the animals, including the parts that are not uplifting.
Three hours
Walking
The altiplanic lagoons
Miscanti and Minques with the wind off them, and a very slow walk along the shore.
A full day, above 4,000 metres
Culture
A night under the Atacama sky
Out past the last light with an astronomer, a telescope and two hours of nothing else.
Three hours after dark
Craft and makers
Ikat weaving in Kodi
Indigo, morinda root and looms, with the women who dye and weave on them.
Half a day
Slow and restorative
The reef at first light
A boat to the outer reef before the wind gets up, with nobody else on the water.
Two hours, early