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A travel planner in Hyde Park, Adelaide. We plan whole journeys: the route, the stays, the guides and every transfer.

Diascope plans journeys end to end from Hyde Park, Adelaide: the route, the stays, the guides and every transfer in between. Before you go, we’ll show you the whole trip, one slide at a time. One planner builds yours from nothing and stays with it until you’re home.

Plan my tripTell us where you’re drawn to, and a planner writes back.

A tiled courtyard house in a High Atlas valley in early sun, a stair rising to a blue-shuttered door and snow on the ridge beyond

A courtyard house in a High Atlas valley

Your room is up the tiled stair, behind the blue shutter. The last stretch is on foot, and someone from the house carries the bags.

Choose another journey from the list.

Tonight’s slides

Three journeys, drawn for this page to show how we plan one: where you’ll sleep, who meets you, and how you get from one place to the next.

A tiled courtyard house in a High Atlas valley in early sun, a stair rising to a blue-shuttered door and snow on the ridge beyond

A courtyard house in a High Atlas valley

An illustrative journey

  • Three nights in a courtyard house in a valley village; the last stretch is on foot, and someone from the house carries the bags.
  • A guide from the valley walks with you each morning, at the pace you set on the first day.
  • The drive up from the plain is slow, so lunch travels with you.
A guide and a traveller in long coats walking away down a quiet lane of timber townhouses in Kyoto, early morning

Kyoto, before the lanes fill

An illustrative journey

  • A guide who lives nearby walks the old lanes with you at seven.
  • Four nights at a small inn in the hills north of the city, breakfast at the hour you choose.
  • Then the train north to the coast, in seats on the side that faces the sea.
A fjord on the Norwegian coast seen from a train seat, a cup of tea on the table by the window

The Norwegian coast, by rail and ferry

An illustrative journey

  • A window seat on the water side for the long run north.
  • The ferry leg timed for the light, with the bags sent ahead.
  • Someone holding your name when the boat docks.

Loading your tray

Every trip starts as an empty tray and a long conversation about how you like to travel.

We start with the route, which way round and where to go slowly; then the stays that make the travel worth it; then the guides who’ll meet you; and last, the part that holds the rest together: the days between.

The route. One line from your front door to the furthest point and back, drawn before anything else, so every stay and every transfer has a reason to be where it is.

The stays. Rooms chosen for the hour you’ll arrive and the hour you’ll leave: quiet, near what you came for, somewhere to sit at the end of the day.

The guides. People who know a place because they live there, matched to how you like to walk, and briefed on you before you land.

The days between. Transfers, rest days and the afternoon with nothing booked, planned as carefully as the walk you came for.

And we stay with it.

When the tray is full you’ll see the whole trip, with a guide price, before anything is booked.

Where you’ll sleep

We choose every room for the hour you’ll arrive and the hour you’ll leave. Point at anything on the wall and we’ll tell you what we know.

  • Every room is chosen for a reason, and we’ll tell you the reason before it goes in your tray.
  • Quiet means something different in each place: away from the stairs, off the street, facing the garden.
  • We never name a stay on the page. You’ll hear about it from us, once it’s yours.

Point at a numbered light on the picture: 1 the slippers, 2 the lit room, 3 the vase.

A polished timber corridor in a Japanese country inn, paper screens glowing, slippers by a door and one lit room at the end
  • The slippers: Shoes come off here. The inn will have your name at the door when you arrive.
  • The lit room: The lit room at the end is yours: quiet, and away from the stairs.
  • The vase: Breakfast comes to the room at the hour you name the night before. We’ll have told them you like it early.
A guide’s hands on a folded walking map with a pencil, a small brass compass and a cup of tea beside it

Who meets you

We choose each guide for how they walk as much as for what they know, and brief them on you before you land. You’ll know their first name before you arrive.

  • Do they walk at your pace?
  • Will they stop for the bread?
  • Do they know when to be quiet?
  • Will they be there at seven?

If the answer to any of these is no, they aren’t in your tray.

The days between

Nobody photographs the hours in between, so we write them down instead.

A fjord on the Norwegian coast seen from a train seat, a cup of tea on the table by the window

Off the train in Bergen, someone who knows which bags are yours; at the courtyard gate in the High Atlas, someone with a key; in the lane in Kyoto at seven, someone who already knows your name.

  • Which platform, which carriage, which side for the water.
  • Who’s holding a card with your name when the ferry docks.
  • What happens to the bags on the day you walk and they don’t.

Every transfer, written down before you leave.

From nothing, until you’re home.

One planner builds your trip and holds every booking in it. There’s no call centre and no handover. If a train is cancelled or the weather turns, the person who planned the trip plans the next leg and sends you the new slide.

What we leave to others: we don’t give visa or immigration advice, and we don’t arrange travel insurance.

Plan your trip

Tell us where you’re drawn to and how you like to travel. Your planner will come back to you, and the first conversation usually takes its time.

Your tray so far. Each answer is written on a blank slide and loaded in.

adults travelling

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