Whether you have grand plans this year or none at all, you can jet off pretty much anywhere through the magic of print. Here are ten indie travel magazines we love, each offering a different way in.
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Tonic Travel like Ernest Hemingway
A heady cocktail of drink, travel and adventure. Tonic travels the world uncovering the history and culture behind what we drink. Eclectic, well-researched and full of facts you never knew. Expect long-form stories that take you around the globe and back in time.
Browse our Tonic collection here.
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Yolo Personal stories for travel inspiration...
Yolo is about timeless, personal experiences and emotive storytelling about place. Recent issues have avoided major tourist hotspots and taken us to small villages with local festivals, architecturally stunning towns and tucked-away beaches.
Browse our Yolo collection here.
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FARE For a sensory experience...
Each issue of Fare takes you to a different city. For Fare, the way to really know a place is through its food, so they'll take you to street vendors, markets, traditional eateries and high-end restaurants to get a real flavour. Along the way they touch on landmarks, cultural hotspots and local artisans. They blend stories, interviews and folklore to give you a real immersion into each place.
Browse our Fare collection here.
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JRNY For classic travel with an indie twist...
JRNY was started by two travel photographers, so expect stunning photography. A map at the front shows you where they're travelling to, and there's usually a nice mix of the once-in-a-lifetime, the adventurous and the closer to home. Some photo stories mixed with travel journalism. The "need to know" info pages are a nice nod back to travel magazines of yore like Lonely Planet. Great if you love planning fantasy adventures.
Browse our JRNY collection here.
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Fields & Stations For writing on the nature of travel
At just over A5 size, Fields & Stations focuses on writing over pictures. It combines travel stories with musings on the nature of travel itself. It's not necessarily a showcase of places you might want to go, more about the journeys taken. In back issues you'll find road trips through Pakistan, the West African coast and Southern Australia.
Browse our Fields & Stations back issues here.
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Lodestars Anthology For slow travel, one country at a time
Lodestars Anthology is both a gorgeous object for your coffee table and a scrapbook of place. It focuses on one country per issue and uncovers its quirks, flavours, landscapes, crafts and traditions. Stunning photography and beautiful illustration, with huge breadth in each issue, covering hiking and nature, reflections on history or architecture and deep dives into local textiles.
Browse our Lodestars collection here.
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LOST For the journey...
With its exposed binding and textured matte paper, LOST is one of the most tactile magazines on our shelves (and one of the chunkiest). For LOST, the inner journey is as important as the physical one. Inside each issue you'll find a collection of journeys all told in their own style, from finding the joy in the tedious on a road trip through the Balkans to musings from a 5,000km trip taken to get over a loss.
Browse our LOST collection here.
8. Command + i For travel in colour...
There's nothing quite like Command + i. Part travel magazine, part design magazine, it's a travel guide to colour, exploring landscapes, cityscapes and local culture through a series of incredible shots and picking out a colour palette in each image. It will have you looking at the world differently, through a more colourful lens. They also use a lithographic printing method to create a seriously luxurious feel to the pages.
Browse the Scotland issue here.
Browse all these and more in our travel collection here and set off without leaving the house.
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