ABOUT

At Slow Travel Lab, we skip the checklist and follow what matters — connection, culture, and the moments you’ll tell stories about later. Our journeys are designed to slow you down and open your senses: meals around long chestnut wood tables, afternoons spent with artisans keeping centuries-old crafts alive, and experiences that feel less like a transaction and more like connection..

Slow Travel Lab was born from my own a midlife remix. In my 40s, I left Los Angeles to help renovate a 15th-century farmhouse in Tuscany — expecting it to be a golden footnote in my interior design career, not the start of a whole new story. But somewhere between the cadence of rolling out fresh pasta, the autumn ritual of the olive harvest, and lingering dinners under fig branches, I fell in love with Italy and realized I wanted more than a visit: I wanted a new life. That pull led me to pivot from interior design into food and travel, first with a Certificate in Italian Gastronomy from Instituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, and later with a Master’s in World Food Studies from the Slow Food University in Piemonte. What began as a personal leap became a mission: to curate sustainable travel that connects travelers not just to place, but to the people and traditions that keep it alive.