At some point, someone in your family will have the idea. It usually starts with good intentions and a significant birthday. A grandmother turning eighty. Grandparents celebrating fifty years of marriage. A family that has not been in the same room since the last graduation and has decided that it's time to do something special. Someone will say, "wouldn't it be wonderful to do a trip?". Everyone will agree. And then the room will fall quiet, because everyone has just had th

There is a particular kind of holiday that looks, from the outside, like a fabulous success. You went to Florence. You saw the David. You stood in the Piazza della Signoria at the hour when the light does the thing everyone says it does, ate at the restaurant four separate people had described as a hidden gem, and returned home with a camera roll that proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that you had been to Florence. The itinerary was completed. Every box was ticked. And somewhe

The message we receive most often starts with an apology. "I hope this isn't too premature." "We don't have dates yet." "I'm not sure we're ready to commit." "I don't want to waste your time." It is, without question, the most unnecessary sentence in the English language, and we receive some version of it almost every week. People who have been thinking about a trip for months, sometimes years, who have a rough idea of where they want to go and a sense that they want help get

The Reverse Migration There's a TikTok trend gaining momentum: Americans in their twenties and thirties posting videos from Italian apartments, Scottish flats, Irish terraces. The captions follow a pattern: "My great-grandparents left here in 1910" or "This is where my family lived before they emigrated." Some moved for work, some for school, some navigated the Italian bureaucratic system to claim citizenship by descent. What unites them is the same reason their great-grandp

The Rise of Women's Solo Travel and the Industry That Saw an Opening Somewhere after 2010, the travel industry saw a shift in demographics and an increased appetite in global travel. And although it was a bit of a golden era - post recession, pre pandemic, with the open borders of the EU and the rise of movies such as "Under the Tuscan Sun" - something changed. And kept changing. Women now make 82% of travel decisions and control roughly $73 billion in annual travel spending

We Don't Hide Behind a Call Centre Here's a radical idea: what if your travel planner actually knew who you were? We're small. Deliberately, unapologetically small. When you work with Peregrina, you're not getting shuffled between departments or passed to whatever "travel consultant" happens to be available that day. With us, you're working with the same person every single time. Across multiple trips, we will remember that you hate early morning flights and that you're aller

Everyone knows what an all-inclusive holiday is. Someone mentions an certain airline and a Jess Glynne chorus starts playing in the background, whether anybody invited it or not. The image is insant: a wristband, a pool, a staff member who appears at exactly the moment your glass empties, and the very particular satisfaction of realising you have no idea where your wallet is, and don't even need it. Peregrina is not here to laugh at that. Anyone who has worked in travel long

Every year, the last days of December produce the same two scenes. In one, people are already where they meant to be. There’s a half-unpacked suitcase in the corner, a slightly unfamiliar view from the window, the quiet luxury of having time to decide between a walk, a nap, or another coffee. The year hasn’t ended yet, but the rush has. In the other, the clock is doing something different. Delays stack up; departure boards flicker; “engineering works” turns out to mean a bus

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There’s a particular smugness that creeps into travel advice the moment anyone utters the phrase “best time to visit.” It’s in every...

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