
Journeys built around a single idea — a railway, a vintage, a festival, a story — and planned so that idea carries the whole trip.
Begin a journeySteam over the viaduct, an hour before the light goes.
A theme is not an excursion added to a holiday. It is the reason for the route — and chosen well, it decides where you sleep, what you eat and who meets you at the station.
Heritage trains and private carriages, harvests and festivals, a writer's houses in the order they were lived in — arranged with the people who keep them, not through a desk that resells them.

Christmas in New York, through the eyes of Kevin McCallister. Iconic film locations, The Plaza, and a little holiday magic.
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From Platform 9¾ to the Hogwarts Express. Discover the real places behind the magic, from London to the Scottish Highlands.
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“A theme only works if it is already yours. I start with what you read, collect or argue about at dinner, and draw the route from there.”
Since 2010 I have planned journeys one at a time, which is the only way I know how to do it well. You will have my number for the whole trip, and it will be me who answers.