Stories from the houses.
Conversations with hosts about the one decision that cost them guests.
Zabola: An Estate That Is Lived In
Six hundred years in one family, expropriated, returned, moved back into. In Transylvania, Zabola shows what a hotel becomes when the owners don't move out.
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Southern Sweden: Manor and Vineyard
A country estate above the Öresund with 163 rooms that feels small, and a winery in Halland where you sleep where the wine grows. The summer you don't expect from Scandinavia.
Styria: Greenhouse and Vineyard
In the north, guests sleep in treehouses and breakfast among lemon trees. In the south, a winery with an inn sits on the border. Two houses, two Styrias.
Slovenia in Two Houses
Four chalets a thousand metres above the Soča valley and a moated castle on a river island in the south-east. Two hours' drive, two countries in one.
Oaxaca: City and Coast
Two houses from the same group, seven hours apart — one behind a historic façade opposite Santo Domingo, one of brick and solar power on the Pacific.
Morocco in Three Houses
From the plain outside Marrakech into the High Atlas and on to the Oualidia lagoon: three houses that understand Morocco as landscape — not as souk.
Mallorca, Three Ways — and Menorca Once
A townhouse in Santanyí, an estate in the hills near Artà, a house for people who want to move — and on the neighbouring island a farm that shows what Mallorca once was.
Harads: Two Houses, One River
A village of six hundred on the Arctic Circle, home to two of Scandinavia's best-known hotels — because one family built something unreasonable twice.
Azores: Two Coasts, One Island
São Miguel has a north coast for people who want to be in the water and a south coast for people who want to hear it. Two houses that take that seriously.
Asturias: Three Tables, One Valley
One family, a restaurant in the childhood home, a hotel in the palace next door — and a young chef showing at five tables in a mountain village that Asturias is enough.
The Other Mallorca: A Finca Built for Doing Nothing
Above Artà, a 220-hectare working estate has become a retreat where doing nothing is an art form.
Where the Wine Came First
Parkhotel Mondschein and the Art of Restraint
Why one of South Tyrol's most interesting hotels doesn't try to win your attention.
A Hotel Built Around a Kitchen
Why you come to the 1477 Reichhalter for the food — and stay longer for everything else.
The Luxury of Jumping Into the Ice
Why Arctic Bath is less a hotel than an encounter with the North.
A Hotel You Cannot Reach by Car
How vigilius mountain resort shows that less is sometimes the more luxurious path.
Antiparos Before The Crowds
How The Rooster shows that luxury sometimes simply means wanting less.
We Keep Ending Up in Farmhouses
Farmhouses leave no loud memory. They settle in slowly — and often stay longer than the most spectacular hotels in the world.
Why We Prefer Smaller Hotels
Because character rarely scales. On the moments and places that remind us why small hotels still matter.
The Return of Slow Travel
Why the best journeys are getting smaller again — and what five addresses in Portugal, Spain, Tyrol and South Tyrol have to say about travelling without urgency.
South Tyrol, Again
The place where Alpine culture meets Italian living — and why we keep coming back.