John Mercer

John Mercer writes about slow living, long walks, and the books that survive a second reading. Trained as an archivist, he spent eight years cataloguing county records before leaving to travel overland across Europe — a trip that was meant to last three months and is still, loosely, ongoing. These days he keeps a small flat in Porto, takes on freelance indexing work, and publishes here roughly once a week: notes on where he has been, what he is reading, and how to build a quieter day.