Sofia Marchetti
Journeys Collaborate
Travel stories • field notes • slow discovery

Chasing
afterglow.

I turn detours, dawn trains, salt roads and unfamiliar tables into stories that make a place feel close enough to touch.

✦Field notes
Worldwide / Local
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The storyteller

Maps are only the beginning.

I write at the intersection of culture, hospitality and place. My work lingers beyond the landmark: in the person pouring tea, the first bus of morning and the route nobody put in the guidebook.

38 Countries explored
120+ Stories published
9 Years on the road
Featured journeys

Three places,
three moods.

Destination-led storytelling with an eye for atmosphere, food, movement and the small details that make a journey memorable.

Island field notes

Salt & Silence

Mountain journal

Above the Cloudline

City dispatch

Neon After Rain

Writing philosophy

The best stories leave room to wander.

I combine immersive first-person reporting with practical travel intelligence, so a reader can feel the journey and actually plan one.

“Travel content should give you a sense of place before it gives you a list.”
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Long-form features

Narrative destination pieces shaped around people, rituals and atmosphere.

02

Guidebook intelligence

Thoughtful itineraries, neighbourhood notes and useful local context.

03

Hospitality stories

Hotels, stays and culinary experiences explored through a human lens.

Travel style

How I move.

Curious rather than rushed. Designed around encounters rather than checklists.

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Dawn seeker

Early starts for markets, quiet streets and the changing color of a city.

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Slow observer

Longer stays, repeat walks and enough time for a place to reveal its rhythm.

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Culture first

Food, craft and conversations as the real architecture of travel.

Destination storytellingTravel writingEditorial photographyItinerary designHospitality featuresCultural research
Next chapter

Let's go
somewhere.

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