The Magazine
Lodestars Anthology is an independent magazine-meets-journal for curious travellers who long to be inspired, see the world and meet interesting characters along the road. Focusing on one country per issue, Lodestars is a scrapbook of place, a magazine that goes deep into the heart of a location and uncovers its charms, flavours and splendour, taking a truly personal, beautifully crafted and slow approach to the art of travel journalism.
With stunning photography, stories and illustrations - produced in Bristol by a small independent press with an eye for detail and a love for print – Lodestars is a thing of beauty in its own right. You’ll probably want to keep it atop a coffee table, or perhaps you’ll want to fill it with scribblings and notes and stow it away in your travel bag for inspiration whilst on the road.
In past issues we’ve rambled up the Keele River by canoe, gone hawk-walking in the bonnie braes, found paradise on Lord Howe Island, hitched a ride with ice-road truckers to Aklavik, and taken a turn around the winery with Sam Neill . . . We’ve bathed in onsens, practiced the art of Fika in Stockholm, followed ancient pilgrimage routes, and much more besides.
In 2018 we said bonjour to France and namaste to India, and re-issued an updated version of our original England magazine. In 2019 we ventured to Portugal, Switzerland and back to Japan, and in 2020 we published magazines dedicated to Mexico and Wales. 2021 saw our Greece and Australia issue enter the world, followed by Spain and Ireland. In 2024, we released updated versions of our Italy and Japan (again) magazines, and Islands came out in 2025 - next up New Zealand.
So if you like the idea of receiving a little piece of beautifully produced incitement to wanderlust through your letterbox several times a year, why not give the latest issue a try or dive into one of our back issues, and join us on this great adventure?
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New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a land of myth, created, according to Māori lore, when the Polynesian Demi-God Māui cast a fishhook crafted from an ancestor’s jawbone off the canoe in which he had stowed himself away.
With this, he hauled from the ocean’s depths a giant fish, which became the North Island, its mountains and rivers carved out by his brothers impatient to devour the catch. The South Island is their canoe, with secluded Rakiura, found at what feels like the end of the earth, formed from its anchor stone. Today, with its sleeping volcanoes, mighty fjords, seemingly endless coastline and ability to make visitors feel deliciously small, New Zealand remains shrouded in a special kind of magic.
Some featured destinations: Milford Sound, Rotorua, Taupō, Queenstown, Stewart Island, Northland, Bay of Islands, Hawke's Bay, Abel Tasman National Park, Mount Cook / Aoraki, Wellington, Marlborough Sounds & much, much more.