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The pandemic is not over but borders are opening, and Trufflepig's A-list planning team is here to explore travel ideas with you. We invite you to:

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Rummage through our online magazine, The Sounder, to see what our planners have been up to. Dig into their thoughts on the past, present and future of travel, find ideas for your next trip, or simply scratch that frustrated travel itch.

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Take a look at our W.T.FAQ page for specific questions about planning in the time of Covid.

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Start a conversation about a specific trip, by contacting us at curious@trufflepig.com, or completing our Get in Touch page for a call-back.

Stay safe, stay careful, but stay curious.

I, Claudio

Speaking as both an individual of Chilean descent and a lover of all things Morocco, it took surprisingly long for Claudio Bravo to come into my orbit.  Surely due in part to the fact that in neither Morocco nor Chile was Claudio Bravo ever particularly well known.  Even to this day, no museum or art […]

Forbidden Love, Portuguese Style

When I travel to places I don’t know, I like finding the threads that bind destinations together. This exercise in dot-connecting led me recently to follow the trail of one of Portugal’s most popular, and bizarre legends. Alcobaça, about an hour or so north of Lisbon, is a quiet town with an outsized history and […]

Olhão’s Metaphysical Graffiti

The end of dictatorship in Portugal in the 1970s, and the ushering in of new found freedoms and economic opportunities, brought with it a sad legacy: a serious drug addiction problem that coincided with an emerging AIDS epidemic. The combination devastated families across Portugal’s social classes. The Algarve, synonymous today with Portugal’s prime beach destination, […]

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