A record of where crafts are still taught at the source, with a name and a date on every line — and an introduction to the teacher when you want to go.
Tell me the skill you want to learn — I show you whose door opens
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Why this exists
Everything worth doing with your hands is still taught somewhere, by someone.
Almost none of it is written down in a way you can act on. The people who could tell you are working, not publishing.
So it stays a rumour, and another year goes.
So I keep a record: where each craft is still taught, and by whom.
What it is
The Atlas
Nobody pays to be on it.
The Circle
It decides what I check next, and which collaboration is built.
Collaborations
A few days, or a few weeks.
Arnaud in the galley
Who I am
That’s why I’m building this for you: so you can get where you need to go, more simply.
Follow your calling. They know the way.
The Circle
One note. One click to leave.
The Atlas of Skills
Where nothing can be verified, the line stays blank. A craft opens because someone asked. What I find goes up for everyone.
Four things you can check
What it will never doSell a place on the map. Take money from anyone it judges. Fill a blank with a plausible name. Promise you the craft.
The Circle
What your note does. I go and find where the craft is still alive, who still teaches it by hand, and who else is chasing it. What I find goes on the Atlas for everyone, not just for you.
What the Circle decides. Which craft I open next, and which collaboration I build. Barcelona came first, before anyone asked. The next is chosen by what the Circle asks for.
It hears first. Never a drip. One note, one click to leave.
Collaboration 01 · Vakuum, Barcelona · 22–26 October 2026
I design each collaboration for chefs who already cook for a living. I choose the people, the instructor, the techniques you learn and what happens around the class, so the days become unforgettable moments with other chefs. It can be a few days, or a few weeks.
The first ran in Martin Lippo’s laboratory. The chefs wrote about it.
“Everything amazing!! Best host best Master.”
“I left the course viewing food completely differently.”
“Martin clearly loves what he does and tries to give as much info as possible, love it”
“This course was very special indeed.”
“all was great”
“Learning from Martin has forever changed the way I view food, its history, and its future”
“This was my first time in Barcelona and the class was beyond anything I had expected!”
Founder · Every skill here, researched in depth by me
I grew up in the Jura — about as far from the sea as you can get in France. I left school at 18 to find out what the world was really about, and I've been crossing it by sea and by land ever since — fifteen years of that, ten of them cooking on yachts, learning from the masters I met along the way. Here is some of it.
I · The beginning
Everyone expected university and a career. I finished a science baccalauréate, worked factory shifts until I had two thousand euros, and flew to Melbourne instead.
II · The kitchens
It started in a Darwin dishpit, the day the chef ran short-handed and put a knife in my hand. The Michelin star came years later. Every chef a teacher.
III · The sea
First classes in Sydney Bay, a place on regatta crews by asking at the dock, then oceans. The sea cares about judgment, not a résumé.
IV · The depths
Freediving Mexican cenotes and the open blue, sharks in the Galápagos. Fear turned into respect.
V · The heights
Annapurna at 4,130 m, passes across the Himalaya. The people on the trail taught me more than any classroom.
VI · The stillness
Breathwork in Bali, Ayurveda in India — and in the Thar desert, the idea for all of this took shape.
What EducatedTraveler is: a skill, a place, a person, your people.
Every real skill is learned the same three ways — where it's alive, from a master who'll hand it over, beside the handful chasing the same thing.
“I never found my teachers. They found me.” Now I'm building the way in — the map I wish I'd had, and the doors it opens. The first one ran this October, in Martin Lippo's Barcelona laboratory.
Between collaborations I keep the Atlas — a record of where crafts are still taught at the source, ranked by community, not by who pays. Nobody buys a place on it: a craft opens when someone writes and asks for it.