About Me

I'm Pierre — French, 34, and I've spent the better part of a decade moving between continents and traveling through more than fifty countries. Everything here is mine: the guides, the journal, the photographs, the opinions. It's a one-person project, and I like it that way.

I live in Puerto Escondido, on the Oaxacan coast of Mexico — a surf town where the waves are enormous, the seafood is extraordinary, and the sunsets have a quality that makes you forgive the humidity. It's where I write between trips, and where I come back to when I've been away too long.

I started Shared Latitude because every travel blog I found felt the same. Budget hacks. Tourist-trap itineraries. SEO-stuffed listicles written by people who'd spent a weekend somewhere and called themselves experts. I kept wishing for something different — a site that treated travel the way I actually experience it: slowly, intentionally, with real opinions and real detail.

So I built the site I wished existed.

Shared Latitude is honest and curated. It's for people who value their time — who'd rather spend an hour reading one thoughtful recommendation than scroll through fifty mediocre ones. The philosophy is simple: fewer places, more depth. One perfect restaurant matters more than ten forgettable ones.

Every guide on this site comes from weeks — sometimes months — of living somewhere. Every restaurant has been eaten at, every neighborhood walked through, every hotel slept in. No sponsorships, no affiliate rankings masquerading as opinions. Just the places I'd send a close friend.

Fewer places, more depth. One perfect restaurant over ten mediocre ones.