Slow travel · off-season
Go in the wrong month. Stay twice as long.
The good version of almost anywhere happens when nobody else is there. I go in the off-season, stay long enough to stop being a visitor, and write down what that actually costs.
60+
Places stayed a month or more
11 yrs
Travelling in the wrong month
0
Sponsored stays, ever
Field notes
From the notebook
Long stay
The Village That Empties in October
Six weeks and a rented kitchen.
Method
How I Choose Where to Stay Put
Four questions, every time.
The cost
Is a Month Cheaper Than a Week?
Usually. Here are the numbers.
About Tamsin
I stopped counting countries and started counting months.
Ten days in a place tells you what it sells. Ten weeks tells you what it is.
From readers
What readers say
Tamsin talks me out of more trips than into them.
Marit H.
The month-versus-week piece paid for our whole stay.
Jonah P.
We went in November because of her. Best trip we have taken.
Ines K.
Where I have been
Recent months
A courtyard, mid-morning, empty
Thermal baths, first week of March
Breakfast, cooked at home for once
Notebook, week four
The Off-Season
Thinking of going anyway?
I help a handful of people a month plan a long stay instead of a short trip.
One place a fortnight, and what a month there really costs.