The Alborán · The Coastline
Padel travel, written from the coasts that matter. Where to play, where to stay, where to spend a long weekend.
What lives in this section
Pieces in The Coastline take readers to places worth knowing: Marbella, Barcelona, Lisbon, Dubai, Edinburgh when the season turns. Each piece is built around a single trip, made carefully, written slowly.
This isn't a guide section; it's place writing. The clubs are the spine of each piece, and around them sit the cities, the meals, the harbour at the end of an afternoon.
We go to one place per issue and stay long enough to know it. That's the format.
Read in The Coastline
The Alborán · 3rd August 2026
Bilbao Knows How to Wait →
We went to Bilbao in the last week of January without a real plan to play padel. We never did, and that turned out to be the point.
See all eight pieces of Issue Two →The Alborán · 1st July 2026
A Villa Called the Alborán →
Gili Air, a villa that shares the name, a Sasak kitchen we returned to, and a padel court on a coral island.
See all nine pieces of Issue One →The other sections
Issue Two · out now
The Alborán is out now. Coastal membership is free, and always will be.
Andy Galt & Alex Robinson, Editors