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From Europe with Love Whereabouts
A physical letter, seven times

We gave up our address.
You get seven letters.

Each one is a small printed magazine from the town we're living in, with a folded map of it, posted to wherever you are. No. 1 is Merano, the town we left at the start of October.

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Shipping included, anywhere. 79 € until the print run for No. 1 is set on October 21, 99 € after.

A hand holding a blank zine cover next to a folded city map and a blank postcard, on a bed. The magazine, A6 Folded A3 map Artist postcard Hand-numbered envelope
No. 1 doesn't exist yet. This is the format. Covers still empty, that's where we are.

What arrives in the letter

All of it in an envelope, addressed by hand and numbered by hand. No. 1 is Merano, the town we just left. No. 2 is Portugal. After that we don't know yet, which is the point.

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Candidate envelopes laid out on a white sheet, one with a deckle edge, one recycled brown, next to pens and a notebook.
Several candidates for the envelope. We haven't picked one yet, and it might end up being none of these. The deckle-edged one costs about four times the others, which is roughly the argument we're having.

Seven letters, one route

Map of Europe with a line from Merano to Portugal and a dashed line running off the edge of the map.

After Portugal we don't know. Mexico is on the table, so is Asia, so is South America. We're keeping it open on purpose, because the whole point is that we don't know yet.

What isn't open: seven letters get made and seven letters get posted. If the trip falls apart for some personal reason we don't expect, you get all your money back, not a pro rata share.

One letter per place we live in, every one to three months. The seventh lands in summer 2027. That part is fixed, even if the places aren't.

The sort of thing that ends up in one

A 1960s hotel lounge with wood ceilings, tan leather banquettes and diamond-shaped wall lights.
A hotel that hasn't been renovated since about 1972 and shouldn't be.
A hardware shop in Merano with a hand-painted sign reading M. Brugnara, Ferramenta.
A hardware shop two streets from our old flat. The sign alone is worth the detour.
A lit terrace by the water at night, in front of a white building with a canoe moored below.
A small place in Bavaria we keep going back to.
Jakob standing at a wooden fence next to a camel in an alpine pasture.
And the occasional tip you weren't expecting.
Three children seen from behind, looking out over a forested valley.

One page in every letter is theirs. They pick what goes on it and we don't edit it, which means it is usually about food, animals, or something that went wrong.

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Who's writing

Sina and Jakob taking a selfie in the rain in front of a long white colonnade in Czechia.

We're Sina and Jakob. For five years we lived in Merano, South Tyrol, and for the last three of them Jakob has sent this newsletter every Sunday: five things from Europe, found that week. At the start of October we put everything into a container and left. The newsletter keeps coming, same Sunday, same five things. Whereabouts is the part that doesn't fit in an email: what it's actually like, on paper, from wherever we are.

Jakob at night in front of the illuminated Merano town sign, making a peace sign.
Merano, the week we left. No. 1 is about that week.

Why we're doing this

We're making these for ourselves first. Every place we've lived in has turned into a blur about a year after leaving it, and we'd like to stop that happening. So we write it down while we're in it, print it, and keep one copy each.

A brass table lamp on a dark marble console against a deep red wall in a 1960s hotel.
This corner is the reason we remember that hotel at all. A year from now, without a photo and a line about it, it would be gone.

It's the same job as the newsletter, really: notice the good things, write them down, pass them on. Only slower, and on paper. Weeks to make, days to arrive, so what ends up in a letter is what was still worth telling a few weeks later.

We're making them anyway. Sending you one costs us an envelope and a stamp.

Fair warning

This will be serious in places. Shops, cafés, brands, the five things, yes. But also the parts that aren't going well, because a year like this has those, and a letter that leaves them out is a brochure.

Jakob, October 2026, unsorted

These will look different from Porto. That's what the letters are for.

Three ways to get it

One letter, 19 €

  • The next letter, its map and its postcard
  • Shipping included, anywhere
  • You pick the place
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20 € less than it costs from October 22

Seven letters, 79 €

  • All seven letters, all seven maps
  • Shipping included, anywhere
  • 79 € until the print run is set on October 21
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Pen pal, 129 €

  • All seven letters, all seven maps
  • Two small surprises we found for you on the way, sent during the year
  • A handwritten note in every envelope, and a proper back and forth if you want one
  • Twenty of these, then it closes
Be our pen pal

Started with one? The other six are 80 € afterwards, so you never pay more than 99 either way. We send you that link once No. 1 has arrived.

Pen pal is mostly a way of saying thank you. It covers the copies we get wrong, the ones that go missing in the post, and a good part of the stamps. Twice during the year we'll also send you something small we found, tucked into a letter or in an envelope of its own. Wherever we land we end up in the same four places: stationery shops, design stores, museum gift shops, and the kind of concept store that also does coffee. It'll come from there. Probably stationery, but we don't know yet, that's the part we still have to go and find. Nothing from an airport, nothing with the name of the city printed on it.

Capped at twenty, because that's how many extra envelopes we can fill without it becoming a shipping business.

No risk, and we mean none

If it isn't for you, just say so. A postcard, an email, one line is enough. We refund everything, you keep what arrived.

If a letter gets lost in the post, we send another.

And if the trip doesn't happen at all, for whatever reason, you get every cent back.

Jakob Sina

Paper, printing, envelopes and stamps come to about 99 € for the seven. Order before the run is set and you pay 79.

Giving it to someone: put their address in at checkout and write the dedication in the field. We copy it into No. 1 by hand.

When
No. 1 goes to the post at the end of October 2026. After that, one letter per place we live in, every one to three months. The seventh lands in summer 2027.
Where
Anywhere with a postal service. No tracking, no courier, just the post. Europe takes a week, the rest of the world two to four, sometimes longer. If one never turns up, tell us and we send another.
Refund
If it isn't for you, a postcard saying so is enough. Full refund, and you keep what arrived.
PDF
No. It exists on paper. Photograph it and share it, that's fine.
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