Journeys by air, sea and land

Your travel, by the year

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III · For owners

Private Hospitality

Your house, and everyone who stays in it

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Journal

Notes from the house.

A desert highway at dusk below bare mountains, its lamps lit and a car approaching with its headlights on

A last day in Cairo

I was on the wrong side of the desert and very nearly said no.

Wooden shutters being opened onto hard sun on a warm plaster wall

Keeping a house you rarely see

For owners abroad: how a house is opened, aired and readied, so that it never feels closed.

A table laid for two against a rough stone wall, dried wheat in a glass vase

What a good host never says

The polite phrases that do the most harm, and what to say instead.

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