SLOW DOWN
What we rediscover when the city falls asleep
There is a window between waking and the day starting properly. Outside, it lasts a lot longer.
[ Editor, Ailleurs ]
ÉLISE MARCHAND
Writes about slow travel, mountain weather and the small hours nobody photographs.
All of the journalÉlise started Ailleurs after a winter spent walking the same valley every morning, watching the light arrive differently each time. She writes the journal’s long pieces: the ones about waiting, about weather turning, about the particular quiet of a place before anyone else is awake.
She is less interested in where to go than in how to be there. Her stories tend to end without an itinerary — which is, more or less, the point.
[ 2 STORIES ]
IN THE JOURNAL.
FIELD NOTES
Travel light. Come back with more
We prepare for trips by adding things — stops, plans, places we must not miss. What happens if you start by removing them.
