Monarch & Swift

A honeymoon so magnificent, our clients couldn’t pick just one highlight! ✨

Typically, when clients come to us to plan their honeymoon, we’re talking beach destinations. When .claire.h and came to us they said “send me to Iceland in the winter”

🫡 CAN DO🫡

In a weeklong road trip through Iceland Ian and Emily visited Reykjavik, The Golden Circle & the Snaefellsnes Peninsula. The highlights?

🧊 The Katla Ice Cave, made famous by Game of Thrones. On this excursion, Ian and Emily walked over the glacier, where underneath the mighty volcano Katla roared. After a short glacier walk, they entered the cave of “Dragon Glass” where they were dazzled by the cave's extraordinary colors. Swearing by the old gods and the new, the view from inside the ice cave is truly spectacular...

🥘 The second might not be what you expect! While many travelers fly into and out of Rekyjavik, few spend an extended period in the capital. Ian & Emily dedicated a day to exploring the capital, embarking on a 3-hour walking food tour delving into the local food, people, history & traditions. They visited everything from well-known ‘must visit restaurants’ to small family run businesses and secret local hangouts. Think delicious Icelandic lamb that every Icelander grew up loving, homemade Icelandic ice cream from a secret family recipe, an amazing local seafood cuisine, Icelandic cheese, a hot dog from the famous Icelandic hot dog stand. All that before an evening flight home map for excellent nap conditions on the plane…!

When’s the last time you crossed something off of your bucket list?
 
✈️ This week, we have two clients departing for southern Spain and upon arrival they’ll immediately sail the strait of Gibraltar, the body of water between Europe (Spain) and Africa (Morocco), to spend two weeks winding through Morocco.
 
🛥 So why not fly directly to Morocco?! As a child, Grant visited Southern and during this trip he  became intrigued with Morocco because he could see it from their house.. It blew his mind that you could sail from Europe to Africa in (90) minutes. He knew one day he had to do it, and one day is this week.
 
Aside from ticking “sail the strait of Gibraltar”  off his bucket list, Grant and Elise are most excited about:

🧶Carpet shopping in Fes’ famous medina
🥘 Learning to cook tagine at a home cooking class in Chefchaouen 
🧖‍♀️ Relaxing and getting pampered at hammams in…well in every city!
🕌 An architecture tour in Casablanca with Casamémoire, a nonprofit preservation organization working to have parts of the city designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
 
✈️ If your bucket list is collecting dust, shoot us a DM and we’ll help you rectify the situation!

As the high season in North America & Europe rages on, we’re taking a minute to pick our heads up and look a few months down the calendar. If you have hopes of traveling to South America this year, we encourage you to follow suit! 

🗓 The peak season in South America is October – April which means right now, TODAY, is the time to be planning a trip to South America, especially if you plan to visit a popular destination (coughs, Patagonia, coughs, Uyuni Salt Flats)

South America is chalk FULL of bucket list experiences. Here are our top 5:

🐑 Stay at .lapeninsula , an operating wool farm in the heart of Argentinian Patagonia.

🚁 Helicopter through Parque Nacional Canaima, Venezuela

🧙🏼Experience El Mercado de Las Brujas (the witch market) in La Paz, Bolivia

🌴 Stay at in the Cocora Valley in Colombia. For those of you with kids, this is the house that inspired the family home in Encanto! 

🍷 Enjoy a smooth unoaked tannat at just north of Punta del Este, Uruguay!

We’re curious…what is on the top of your South America bucket list?!

We believe that people travel to broaden their horizons, recharge and amaze themselves by the diversity of our planet.

🦋 When a client comes to us asking us to design an itinerary, our priority is to align them with places & people who will help them achieve just that.

🥘 Enter Gustamundo, a restaurant that helps immigrants in Italy get citizenship, deal with red tape and of course, find employment.

🦋 Gustamundo hosts weekly “migrant cooking stories” in which a 4-course dinner is served to participants in which each course is prepared by someone who migrated to Italy. This serves as an opportunity for the chefs to share their cuisine, their story and thus their country with those traveling to Italy.

🥘 It’s a foregone conclusion that food will be central to your itinerary in Italy. What many travelers don’t consider is what a central role Italy plays (and has played for centuries) in hosting migrants from across the world.

🦋 Experiences like Migrant Cooking Stories with enrich your travel experience, bringing you far beyond any guidebook recommendation, showing you just how interconnected and diverse our planet is.

🥘 If you’re headed to Italy in the coming months, reach out! We’d love to help you personalize an itinerary for an extraordinary adventure.