Issue No. 14 · May 2026The Couple’s Travel Quarterly€ Free online

From office blues to worldly views.

We are a corporate couple balancing demanding full-time jobs with part-time travel — and we write the kind of itineraries we wished existed when we first started planning ours.

In this issue

Barcelona’s gothic alleys, Tokyo’s late-night bookshops, Bavarian castle country and a 13-day South India road trip with our parents.

From the editors

20 days of leave a year. 26 countries crossed off. The math, the spreadsheets, and what we got wrong — written without the influencer gloss.

Featured this month.

Volume IV · Stories 01 — 05
Barcelona
Cover Story · Spain

Barcelona, where football, history and chocolate collide.

Twelve days through the Gothic Quarter, four football matches, and one accidentally life-changing chocolate shop in El Born. A long read on travelling without the bucket list.

Madrid
02

Madrid at sunset, Almudena to Plaza Mayor.

A walking guide to Madrid’s golden hour, with a detour through Money Heist locations.

Seville
03

Seville’s orange blossoms & the soul of Flamenco.

One evening of live Flamenco that ruined every other performance for us.

Japan
04

Tokyo to Kyoto by way of an overnight bus.

The cheapest, strangest, and most surprisingly comfortable transit decision of our trip.

Germany
05

Bavaria’s fairytale castles, without the queues.

How to do Neuschwanstein in spring without losing your morning to a ticket counter.

“Travel isn’t about quitting your job. It’s about planning the small windows better than anyone else.”
— From our manifesto, Issue No. 1

Where we’ve been.