Travel stories told slowly,
so you can fall asleep to them
Henry Hartley spent thirty-four years drawing maps of places he never visited. Now he goes. Each story is one destination, told at the pace of a slow evening, with nothing you need to remember and nothing you have to keep up with.
The sleep contract
- No music under the narration. Only the voice. A little at the open and close, nothing underneath the words, ever.
- No jolts. No sudden volume, no cliffhangers, no ad breaks in the middle of a story. The last minutes only get quieter.
- Nothing to keep up with. Drift off in the middle and the story has done its job.
- True places. The journey is imagined. Every street, dish and river in it is real and checked.
The first story
Lyon, Between Two Rivers
A retired cartographer finally visits the one French city he was never asked to draw, and finds a museum of miniatures that explains what every map leaves out.
More on the way
New stories arrive two or three times a week. This page grows into the full library as they do, with the complete written text of every episode alongside it.