Spoilme is a slow-travel journal for people who travel in twos. Twelve destinations chosen for the way they hold a conversation, six itineraries you can steal, and honest notes on the rooms worth flying for.
Not the wedding photos version. A four-day itinerary between Ravello and Praiano, mostly on foot, sometimes on a lemon boat.
Wake up in Ravello, argue about spritz in Praiano, forgive each other on a boat off Positano. Our four-day plan replaces the highlight-reel with long lunches and a rented Vespa you're allowed to be scared of.
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Aegean
Skip Oia at sunset. Rent a small house in Pyrgos, cook something with feta, and go to bed with the windows open.
Kansai
A city built for slowness. Book a ryokan in Gion for the manners, a machiya in Nishijin for the mornings.
Maghreb
The medina is a Rorschach test for couples: whoever loses their temper first buys dinner.
Atlantic
Alfama in the morning, Príncipe Real in the afternoon, a fado bar you'll pretend to have found on your own.
Arctic
Drive the peninsula in a small car. If the aurora shows up, don't take pictures — just look.
Indo
Stay above Tegallalang, not inside it. Yoga is optional, breakfast on the deck is not.
"The couples who travel best are the ones who know how to be bored together."
— From Rituals, Vol. 1 · issue 01
On check-in queues, small emergencies, and what the terminal reveals about a person before you've even boarded.
Essay 02 · Manners9 min readA dress code for disagreements: what to raise on the flight, what to leave on the hotel balcony, and when to just eat the pasta.
Essay 03 · Rooms6 min readTen quiet details that separate a great room from an Instagram one. (One of them is a heavy curtain.)
Essay 04 · Packing5 min readThe eight-item weekend list, ranked by argument potential. Bring the linen shirt. Do not bring the second pair of jeans.
Six itineraries
We only publish trips one of us has actually taken with someone we're still speaking to. Each itinerary lists the room, the walk, the restaurant we booked twice, and the disagreement we didn't quite avoid.
None of them are longer than a week. All of them assume you don't want to be on your phone. Two of them can be done from Rome in a rental car and a very good playlist.
Browse all six →A short dispatch — one itinerary, one room, one very small idea about how to travel better together.
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