Seven days
Coves of the Gallura
Granite, turquoise, a wooden boat, and no road map.
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Sardinia, written one traveler at a time
Sardinia, in your storyline. Not a package, not a tour.
For you who already know Amalfi, Capri, the Côte, and have a week, not a month, to spend it well. A private travel storyline atelier for the island that doesn't fit on a brochure.
On the island
"The Sardinia worth knowing isn't on a yacht in Porto Cervo. It's two valleys inland, at a table set for eight at a private home. It deserves its own storyline."
Most trips to Sardinia are assembled from the same dozen postcards. Storylines begin somewhere quieter: a phone call about how you actually travel, which dinners matter, which mornings you'd rather lose to a boat than a museum.
From there we write the trip the way an editor writes a story: a few weeks ahead, line by line, with people on the island who'll never appear on a booking platform. Shepherds in Barbagia. A captain who keeps a wooden gozzo at Cala Coticcio. The chef who only cooks for eight.
One traveler at a time. Two to eight guests at most. A storyline only you could live.
The map
Every dot is a story I've already lived.
A working atlas of the coves, shepherds' tables, captains, chefs and viewpoints we draw from. None of these places are on a brochure, and none of them end up in your storyline unless they're right for you.
- 140+
- Hand-picked locations
- 8
- Micro-regions
- 12
- YEARS EXPERIENCE OF THE ISLAND
Three storylines we've written
Three chapters, lived by real travelers.
None of these will be your storyline. They are how we write.
Nine days
Maddalena to Asinara
A private sailing week through the archipelago, on a classic ketch.
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Five days
Inland: Barbagia
Shepherds' tables, granite mountains, a silence you forgot existed.
Read the storyline →From the journal
What I would read before you write to me.
Notes from the ground: seasons, trip length, and the flights that decide your first day.
- PlanningOne week in Sardinia, a shape rather than a schedule.
How I build a seven night week in Sardinia: one base, two anchors, a movable boat day and two empty afternoons. The shape I use, and why a schedule breaks by Tuesday.
- PlanningHow many days do you need in Sardinia?
Five, seven and ten day shapes for Sardinia, what each one can honestly hold, and the mistake that costs most first visits a full day of the island.
- ComparisonCosta Smeralda versus the real Gallura.
What the Costa Smeralda is genuinely good for, what it costs, and where the rest of the Gallura gives you the same coast without the velvet rope. Written by someone who worked there.
Three ways to write your storyline
Choose how much of the storyline we hold the pen for.
Three services, equally considered. None of them packaged. All of them written one client at a time.
The Storyteller
Consulting & itinerary design
I write your storyline. A deeply personal, day-by-day itinerary: accommodation, transfer, dinners, the why behind every choice. You execute it yourself; I can also propose bookings as a licensed travel agent, with no obligation to take them.
Included
- One 45-minute discovery call
- Written day-by-day storyline, 7 to 21 days
- Hand-picked rooms, captains and tables
- Optional booking through me at current best rates
Not included
- On-island guiding
- Ground bookings and transfers
- Travel insurance
From $690 / itineraryInquire →
The Storymaker
Your local butler, on the ground
The Storyteller plan, executed for you. A private local butler handles every local reservation, transfer and translation: the table that won't pick up the phone, the boat that doesn't have a website, the driver who knows the back road. You travel, we run the day.
Included
- Everything in The Storyteller
- All ground reservations and transfers
- Private driver and on-call butler, 8am to midnight
- Daily itinerary management
Not included
- Che as your personal guide
- Flights to and from Sardinia
- Travel insurance
From $590 / dayInquire →
The Co-author
Designed and walked with Che
The full chapter. A storyline written from scratch with Che personally and then lived alongside Che on the island: the insider who has spent over a decade here. Four parties per year, by application. Only taken on if we know we can make it the trip of your life.
Included
- Everything in The Storymaker
- Che as your private guide on island
- Two-month collaborative design process
- Real-time itinerary adjustments
Not included
- Flights to and from Sardinia
- Travel insurance
Price on requestInquire →
How it works
Four steps, eight to twelve weeks.
01
Conversation
A 45-minute call. How you travel, what you want from the island, what you don't.
02
Draft chapter
Within ten days, a written storyline. Houses, days, dinners, the reasoning behind each one.
03
Refinements
We rework it together until it reads like a trip only you could take.
04
Departure
You arrive. A driver, a phone number, and, if you chose it, Che at the gate.
The guide
Che Liu. Your co-author on the island.
Over a decade lived in Italy, and the last years spent crafting private storylines through Sardinia. A licensed travel agent, a small-group luxury-travel veteran, a stubborn defender of the inland villages most travelers fly over.
Che doesn't run tours. He writes and walks a handful of storylines a year, and only with travelers he's met first. If he takes your trip on, it's because he believes he can give you the Sardinia he'd give a close friend.
ENGLISH · ITALIAN · GERMAN · MANDARIN
Guest stories
"We've travelled with concierges in Tuscany, in Provence, in Mallorca. This was the first storyline that didn't feel like a product. It felt like a friend who happened to know everyone."
"Che rerouted the entire fourth day at lunch because they could see we were tired. That single decision is why we're going back next October."
Considered questions
The things travelers actually ask.
Begin
Sketch your storyline in five short chapters.
No long brief, no commitment. Tell us who's traveling, when, and what pulls you to the island. Che reads every draft personally and replies within three business days.
Or write directly · che@sardiniastorylines.com
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Chapter one
Who is traveling?
A party of two, three generations, a small group of friends. The shape of the trip starts here.
Or write directly · che@sardiniastorylines.com