A Journal of Slow Travel, Quiet Luxury, and Sustainable Journeys
Human powered - made and published slowlyWelcome to Far From. Every digital Issue is a curated journey through a place — exploring inspiring stays, exceptional food, local culture, craft, and design. Captured through words and images by Nicholas Holt, photographer, writer, and creative director.
Alongside the Issues, The Journal shares notes from the road and reflections from home — on travel culture, creativity, design, and the making of places and stories.
NOTESTHE JOURNAL
Notes from the road, reflections from home — exploring travel, creativity, design, and the making of places and stories.
ISSUE ONETHE SAHARA DESERT
A curated journey through Algeria’s vast sand seas, Tuareg blues around the campfire, prehistoric rock art, slow journeys on camelback, and the endless horizon of Morocco’s Saharan frontier.
THE PERENNIALSCOTLAND
Scotland is my ‘faraway nearby’ — a place I return to where nature hits its rawest register: vast, cinematic, and thick with atmosphere.
THE JOURNALLuxuriating in Nature: An Off-Grid stay at KABN, Loch Fyne
My stay at KABN
The Baptism of Solitude: From Rural Shropshire to the Algerian Great Sand Sea
THE SAHARA DESERTA thirty-year obsession, born in a rural library and realised in the heart of the Algerian desert. An exploration of the enduring power of Paul Bowles’ 'Baptism of Solitude'.
THE JOURNALNational Geographic Nostalgia: Alone Across the Outback
On Robyn Davidson’s long walk west