Mara Lindqvist
Mara is one half of Drift. She writes about travel, food, and the small details that make a place feel like somewhere worth staying. She and Soren started this journal as a way of keeping the trips alive a little longer — it turned into something they couldn't stop writing.
Books Survived the Trip
A book you finish on a trip and bring home anyway is a book that earned its place. Here are five of ours.
What Soren Is Reading
He reads four books at once and finishes all of them. I find this both admirable and faintly suspicious.
The Unfinished Book
I have started it four times. I have never passed page sixty. I am starting to think the not-finishing might be the point.
The Map We Bought in Ostmark
It covers a region neither of us had heard of. Several of the roads no longer exist. We have been planning a trip around it for two years.
The Napkins from Halvern
Six linen napkins, mismatched in the way that suggests a set that was never finished. Soren thought they were impractical. He irons them himself now.
The Blue Cup
I found it at a market stall between a broken clock and a tray of mismatched cutlery. Soren said six coins was too much. I bought it anyway. I use it every morning.
A Sunday in Corvel
We weren't passing through Corvel. We had no reason to be there. That turned out to be exactly the right reason.
The Long Lunch at Sorel
We sat down at half past twelve. We left at five. This is a record of what happened in between.
What We Ate in Veldara
A four-day food diary from a town where the bread is exceptional and the menus are handwritten and everything closes between two and four.