Island Ferry
The ferry to a small Greek island is delayed for six hours. A woman with a sketchbook and a man with a guitar case pass the time on the harbour wall, and miss the boat on purpose.
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Night trains, island ferries, mountain huts and rooms in cities far from home. Stories with a passport stamp.
The ferry to a small Greek island is delayed for six hours. A woman with a sketchbook and a man with a guitar case pass the time on the harbour wall, and miss the boat on purpose.
A photographer on assignment in Kyoto keeps running into the same woman at temples across the city. On the fifth day, in a downpour, he finally asks her name.
Caught by a storm above the tree line, two hikers take refuge in an unstaffed hut with one stove, one bunk room and a long night to fill.
The night train from Paris to Vienna, a sleeper compartment booked twice by mistake and two travellers too tired to argue. By Munich, neither of them wants the mistake corrected.
Iris lands in Lisbon with a suitcase, a bundle of letters and no idea what Duarte looks like. The city is bright, steep and full of strangers. Only one of them is waiting for her.
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