Welcome to the TANK Travel issue! 

This year, we have traversed mountains, coastlines, and city streets to bring you an issue packed with stories to divert and delight. Masoud Golsorkhi swims with horses in Indonesia; in Lithuania, Sofia Hallström considers the art of hoarding; and at the Locarno Film Festival, Cici Peng watches films and eats ombré eggs. In Connecticut, Claudia Steinberg speaks to artist R.H. Quaytman, and in London, we speak to Sumayya Vally on architecture as dialogue.

Matteo Pini confronts the uncanny promise of robotic exoskeletons in Snowdonia, Nell Whittaker dives into the Panama Canal, and Jago Rackham regards art in Tallinn and Riga. Cartier celebrates 15 years of its unique glyptic atelier, Holzweiler keeps it chill with a new skiwear capsule, and for our cover story, Riku Ikeya keeps us on track in Japan. In the latest iteration of our global cities feature, we explore Chinese takeaways and hardware stores from Accra to Athens.

Plus, we speak to Maggie Nelson about the power of Taylor Swift, Oneohtrix Point Never on the persistence of residual forms, Ruby Tandoh on food fads, Jake Romm on using international law to challenge Israeli impunity, and many more.

As the days shorten, consider this issue your invitation to savour what travel means, without the fuss: through pages, not departure gates.