A trip with an arc, planned for you.
What you get is not a list of sights. It’s a day-by-day plan for your trip — where to go, what to do, where to eat, and the order that makes all of it feel easy, and it’s written for you, by name, by me.
Built around the magic hours.
Every day has one moment it’s really planned toward — the Alcázar before the heat, the harbor table as the light goes amber, the hour on the roof when the town goes quiet. I find that hour first and build the day around it, so the rest of it never feels like a schedule.
The neighborhoods worth your feet, in the order that makes sense, with the walk between them as part of the plan.
The famous thing at the right hour, and the thing that isn’t famous at all but is the reason people fall for a place.
Tables I’d go back to, with the ones worth reserving flagged and the ones worth wandering into left open.
Your Welcome Notes.
For every destination on your trip, a short note of my own: where you’re welcome, which neighborhoods to stay near, the legal reality stated plainly, and the places I trust to be warm rather than merely legal.
It’s drawn from the Pontiris Waymark — twenty years of quietly vetting which doors open warmly. Every trip is planned against the Waymark; your Welcome Notes are your piece of it.
Portugal has had marriage equality since 2010, and Lisbon wears it without comment. Two men asking for one bed is unremarkable here.
Príncipe Real for ease and walkability, Alfama for the evenings, Cais do Sodré when you want the night to go somewhere.
Four tables, one bakery, and the tram stop that saves your knees at the end of the day. Named, with the hours I’d go.
A page from a real set, lightly redacted.
Three steps, and one of them is yours.
The days are hand-planned. The flights and the hotels stay in your hands — your points, your card, your choice of seat — which is exactly how most travelers prefer it.
Tell me your trip
A short brief letting me know where the pull is, when, who’s going, how you like to travel. Four minutes, and everything can stay loose.
I plan the days
A day-by-day arc built around the magic hours, with your Welcome Notes for every destination — the neighborhoods, the tables, the places I trust.
You travel
You hold the reservations, so nothing sits between you and your trip. I’m a message away while you’re out there.
I take on a small number of trips each season.
That’s deliberate. Everything here is planned by me, one trip at a time, which is the whole reason it’s worth having.
Send a brief whenever you like. If it’s a trip I can take on, we’ll agree the shape of it, and the details, by email before anything begins.