The hotel is open year-round (which is rare for Mallorca), and I can see how it can easily swing from light and airy to dark and cozy. That’s thanks to Madrid-based interior designer and collector Lorenzo Castillo, who has filled every niche with oil paintings, European and Moorish antiques, colorful porcelains and other treasures, while also leaving original details like rustic beams, stone floors, and antique fireplaces alone. From its ivy-choked pink walls surrounded by profuse Mediterranean gardens to antiques-filled rooms swathed from molding to flooring in sumptuous prints, the place is just exuberantly tasteful. The look and feel… Elegant maximalism is the phrase that comes to mind to describe this 17 th century palace-hotel, once owned by a Spanish noble family and recently transformed by the team behind the iconic Finca Cortesin in Andalucia. GUEST BOOK: Grand Hotel Son Net, Mallorca, Spain Reitz, a shirting and dress brand we love-shares her packing (and folding) strategy with us. Charleston restaurateur/entrepreneur Brooks Reitz (who also writes the excellent food/travel-focused newsletter, A Small and Simple Thing ), divulges a packed 7-day itinerary to London and Copenhagen adapted from their family trip this summer, while his wife, Erin-fashion designer and founder of E.M. In a fun first for us, we’ve got a husband-wife team sharing stories side by side in the same newsletter. We also visited a lot of hotels this summer-and today we’re giving you our take on two new favorites. It’s highly edited (meaning they aren’t giving you a long list of every single thing to do on a certain weekend in Paris), and we trust them implicitly (we’ve known most of their editors for ages and they are like family!). Speaking of experts… On the culture front, we couldn’t be more excited about our friends at Air Mail launching AIR (Arts Intel Report)-a constantly updated guide to what’s happening in the art/music/theater/dance world in many key cities. Because as we always say, we know what we know (and do well) here at Yolo, and also what we don’t.
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Besides some Black Books we’re excited about (including Lisbon, Berlin, Egypt and Mexico City), we’re introducing Pain Points, a column in which we’ll take on your (our!) biggest travel frustrations and confusions-including how to get the most from your frequent flier miles and accounts, when and whether you need travel health insurance-tapping the experts for their intel. I even made good on my promise to not bring my laptop on our Greece vacation, taking lots of notes in my journal instead (which I’ll be sharing in my Greece Dispatch next week).īut back to the la rentrée! The reentry! Il rientro! We have a lot of things planned for this fall. Yes, we made some great new discoveries in our own Medoc backyard, which I’ll be adding into our France Travel Planner, but for the most part, we just relaxed.
We didn’t leave our home in France for six weeks (with the exception of a birthday weekend road trip), and did lots of bike rides, berry and plum picking, flower foraging, eating, drinking, running, swimming…and it was bliss. This year, I promised myself to slow down, and I did. I’m sure a lot of that was a result of two summers of restrictions–but I remember feeling equal parts exhausted and exhilarated by the end of the summer. Last summer, I think I actually traveled too much (maybe we all did?). But it also instilled in me a deep understanding that not everyone gets to go somewhere, and not everyone wants to hear about where you went-and to be sensitive to that. If you’re a Yolo magazine reader, or you’ve listened to some of the podcasts I’ve been on, this is not news to you–but for those of you who haven’t heard my travel beginnings, let’s just say that the lack of travel in my youth spurred a voracious appetite for it later. But compared with everyone else, I felt like I never went anywhere. Yes, we would drive from Tacoma, WA, to the Bay Area to stay with my grandparents, and if I was lucky, stay in a motel on the I-5 that had a pool. Remember back when we were kids and talking about what you did for summer vacation was a thing? Does that still happen? I remember being so uncomfortable with that, since my family didn’t really take classic vacations.
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