South Beach is home to the famed Art Deco District with Art Deco buildings from the 1930s and 40s. The pastel colors of the buildings, contrasting the cubistic architecture are simply marvellous, especially by night, illuminated and staged like stars. Honestly? There is absolutely no better place to stay than at the Betsy Hotel on …
I always wanted to sleep in an apartment located at an old town square, with terrace and ceiling-high french window; I was dreaming about listening to the night, the dark whisperings and the faraway music … and that’s where the Alvino Suite & Breakfast comes into play. A lovely building with gorgeous suites, some of …
Two addresses, two styles, two complete different sensations. We experienced Otranto from all possible and different angles: from a camper van, a design hotel, an old palazzo as well as a masseria out-of-town and each time we saw Otranto slightly different. The Palazzo de Mori, located on the edge of the old village with a …
Indeed it is different, the Furni Russi Tenuta, different in many aspects than other design hotels and estates in Southern Italy and one needs to allow time to get used to and to sense the spirit. We were surprised to find the Furni Russi, which is located only a couple of km’s outside of Otranto …
Yeah, right, we are not the only ones being keen on the Lune, the most beautiful room of the hotel Relais Corte Palmieri in the center of the old town of Gallipoli. Actually, the room is not really fancy though, nor modern, nor of special design; it’s spacious and other than that, quite normal. Yet …
Next to the San Domenico Golf course and amongst the world famous hotels la Masseria San Domenico, il Borgo Egnazia and la Masseria Cimino, you’ll find the Bucadue. As seen from the street the Bucadue presents itself rather mousy compared to its famours siblings, but it turned out to be everything but a wallflower. It’s …
It requires time sorting out all the impressions affecting you when entering the Herdade da Matinha. Although, it starts harmless with a trivial drive over three kilometers of dirt road, which then all the sudden ends in a green part of the valley. Our first thought: it looks like Costa Rica, Guanacaste, dry north. Through …
The Casa da Dina is one of those mysterious insider’s tip about which you hardly can find anything in the Internet. Although there are a rather spare homepage, half a dozend enthusiastic comments on tripAdvisor as well as some mousy web pictures, but nothing more. However, the little you get to see is still teasing …
For the first time during this trip did our search procedure for the nightly spot not work out as expected: The “Monte Velho Resort” was fully booked for the whole week because of a yoga seminar and the “Monte da Vilharina” could only offer a room for a single night, and that was not what …
The Oitavos is quite a block. A monumental solitaire built of steel and glass; a monolith, thrown nonchalantly into the sand dune. As we navigated our little rental car towards this giant, we must have felt like Will Smith in “The Independence Day”; sitting in his ridiculous jet fighter, while approaching an intergalactic spaceship of …
One of the hardly explainable curiosities of travelling is the potential longing for places in which you feel like home. At first glance, this looks like a paradox contradicting any travel logic. But stronger than travel logic is still human nature itself: constantly feeling like a stranger is definitely an undesirable condition. All the more …