Lisbon to Cadiz
The Painted Coast
Ferry, bus and slow coastal roads
11 days
Cut, folded and posted
Trips built by hand, one paper fold at a time
Paperway plans overland journeys the slow way. A real planner lays your route across the map, connects the trains, the ferries and the back roads, then posts you the printed map to carry.
- routes folded
- 1,480routes folded
- countries mapped
- 31countries mapped
- out of five
- 4.9out of five
Nothing here came out of a booking engine
We work the way a model maker works: slowly, with a scalpel, checking every join before we glue it down.
- 01
Every leg by hand
No engine spitting out the cheapest connection. A planner rides the map with you, leg by leg.
- 02
Slow on purpose
We plan around the window seat, the harbour ferry, the branch line nobody books. Getting there is the trip.
- 03
One fixed price
Planning is a flat fee. We take nothing from the operators, so the route is the best one, not the best paid one.
- 04
Plans that fold back
Miss a connection and one message reworks the rest. Your booklet has the fallbacks already printed in.
Routes we have already folded
Take one as it is, or use it as the first crease and we will reshape it around your dates.
Interlaken to Tirano
Valley Line
Panoramic rail, cable cars, lake crossings
8 days
Moab to Monument Valley
Red Rock Loop
Rented wagon, dirt tracks, desert camps
9 days
Three folds
How a Paperway trip gets made
- 01
Tell us the shape of it
Where you want to start, how long you have, and what you never want to sit through. Ten minutes, no forms with forty fields.
- 02
We cut and fold the route
A real planner builds the whole trip by hand: trains booked in the right direction, drives kept under three hours, rest days where you will need them.
- 03
You get the paper map
A printed map and a pocket booklet post out to you, with the same route on your phone for the days it rains.
Notes left on the table
They routed us around a strike we did not know about and it turned into the best day of the trip.
Marta ReinholtValley Line, April
The paper map lives on our kitchen wall now. Nine days of desert, not one wrong turn.
Dev AleyarRed Rock Loop, October
I have planned my own trips for years. This was better, and I got my evenings back.
Solveig MarPainted Coast, June
Tell us where the first line goes
Send the rough shape of the trip. We will come back with a first sketch, free, and only start folding properly once you like the look of it.
- One planner, start to finish, named on your booklet.
- Tickets and seat numbers checked twice before they reach you.
- A printed map posted anywhere we can reach in ten days.
