Issue 16

August 2026

This issue is full of travellers who turned up at what looked like the ‘wrong’ time of year. We follow fresh tracks through a Ladakhi winter, when the passes close, the butter tea flows and the monasteries fill with masked dancers. We wait out six days of rain on Caye Caulker and find that Belize has rather more to offer than sharks. We walk Turin’s arcades after the tennis crowds have packed up, climb into the Peruvian Andes in green season for half the price, and spend winter peeling back the layers of the Maltese Islands. In Sydney, we discover a warming city learning to travel cooler. Many destinations, one shared idea. Travel without the crowds.