An illustrated journey with Mea ZenReal places.
Real places.
Wandering heart.
Open pages.
The map has no last page.
Come a little closer. Beyond the postcard is a street, a story, and a woman with a notebook — finding her own way through the world.
✦ Nine chapters ✦ Original travel photographs ✦ One open notebookTake the scenic route
Follow your curiosity
Where shall we wander?
Start close to home, follow the coast, or turn to any page. Every chapter is a small invitation to look again.
CHAPTER 01Slovakia
The first page
CHAPTER 02Portugal
Learning the edge
CHAPTER 03Spain and Gibraltar
Patterns and detours
CHAPTER 04The Riviera and Monaco
An afternoon without a task
CHAPTER 05Italy and Vatican City
The city reflected
CHAPTER 06Belgium
Small rooms in a large journey
CHAPTER 07The Netherlands
A wider line
CHAPTER 08Croatia
Stone, shade, and the shared square
CHAPTER 09Montenegro
The page that stays openFrom photograph to storyThe places are real.
The places are real.
The pages can dream.
Our old photographs are the beginning, not the ending. Familiar streets become illustrated scenes; Mea’s notebook gives them a new voice.
Try the photograph switch. The original image is still here, exactly where the story began.
Explore the photo archive“The tram knew its route.Mea’s notebook · The Portugal chapter
I was still negotiating mine.”
Travel2CityThe Map with No Last PageA story to hold in your handsThe notebook is
Step inside the book
The notebook is
becoming a book.
Nine chapters. Twenty-one illustrated sequences. A journey through the places we photographed, and the feelings we imagined along the way.
Illustrated edition in preparationStep inside the book