What a dossier looks like
Sample Dossier
Your Dossier and Travel Companion arrive together, in a single delivery, before you fly. Here are two days from a trip we have written, set out just as the dossier sets them out.
Excerpt
Edinburgh and the Highlands, days 4 and 5
Day 4
North over the Drumochter Pass
Inverness
By train · Highland Main Line
Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness. About three hours and forty minutes on the direct service.
The direct services are the ones worth taking, as journeys with a change along the way run slower.
The line climbs to Drumochter, at 1,484 feet the highest point on Britain's main line railway, then crosses a second summit at Slochd before descending to the Moray Firth. Inverness is small, and that is precisely the point, for it is the door to the Highlands. On the first evening, walk the Ness Islands, a chain of wooded islands joined by white Victorian footbridges, and end the night at Hootananny, where there is live music every night of the year.
Stay Ness Walk, Inverness
Table The Mustard Seed, then Hootananny
Day 5
Culloden at first light, dolphins on the tide
Inverness and the Black Isle
Culloden is best visited before the visitor center opens. The battlefield is open at any hour and free to enter, and at eight in the morning, in the rain, it becomes something other than a heritage site. Clava Cairns, four thousand years older, is about a mile to the east. From there, the day turns north onto the Black Isle to Chanonry Point, where bottlenose dolphins hunt salmon in the narrows a few yards from the shingle. The rising tide is the time to go, from about an hour after low water, and at any other time it is not worth the journey. A private driver makes this day effortless. Dinner is at Rocpool, back on the river.
Stay Ness Walk, Inverness
Table Rocpool
The kit
What else arrives with it
01
The Dossier
Your day-by-day itinerary, written for you alone: the trains, the tables, the hotels and the reasons for each, checked against current sources before it is sent.
02
The Travel Companion
What is worth knowing before you go, while you are there, and should anything go wrong.
03
Two cards for your phones
Emergencies and essentials, ready to save to your phone and use offline.
And the part that does not fit in a document: a direct line to your advisor for emergencies while you are traveling.
Let us plan your trip.
Whenever you are ready, tell us who is traveling, roughly when, and where your thinking has taken you so far, however early it may be. A single sentence is all we need to begin.
Every inquiry is read personally, and we reply within 24 hours.