About
Welcome!
Passeggiare is a collection of essays about place, culture and the spaces in between.
Not the landmarks or the highlights, but the details that are easily overlooked. A morning walk before a place awakes. An old plate on a restaurant table. The scent of a fig tree carried on the breeze. The feeling of a place before you can quite explain why it matters.
The essays often begin with food, streets and everyday encounters, but they’re rarely about those things alone. They’re about paying attention. About memory. About community. About understanding why certain places, conversations and moments linger long after we’ve returned home.
In a world that increasingly rewards moving quickly, Passeggiare is my attempt to slow down and notice what sits in plain sight.
A note on me
I’m Joel, originally from Sheffield in the United Kingdom and now based in Kraków, Poland.
I started Passeggiare because I realised I was far more interested in the questions places left me with than simply writing about where I’d been.
It’s where I explore those questions, one essay at a time.
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Elsewhere
Occasionally, I write beyond Passeggiare.