The Escapist: 2025 / Global
Contributors
The writers, photographers and illustrators who have helped us to put together ‘The Escapist’ found some diversions of their own. Here are a handful.
Alexandra Aldea
Writer
— trips
Writer Aldea grew up surrounded by the medieval walls of Lucca, Tuscany, but now lives out of a suitcase, driving from place to place with her husband. For this issue, she took a roadtrip through the historic area of Zagorohoria in Greece’s Pindus mountains. “Everyone was very friendly,” she says. “I look Greek but I don’t speak the language, so I often ended up in passionate conversations with people who had no idea that I didn’t understand,” she says. “I hope that no one tried to tell me about the best restaurants to…
