Keep Your Wanderlust Alive While Staying At Home
Our world may be on hold for a little while longer, but there is no need to press pause on your wanderlust. I have compiled a list of a few of my favorite items to keep the dream of travel alive while sheltering in place.
Virtual Tours
Take a virtual tour of your favorite museum or be whisked away to a far off destination you never thought you would visit. Here are few of my favorite museum tours:
Picasso Museum in Barcelona
Musee d'Orsay in Paris
Metropolitan Museum in New York
And here are a few of my favorite virtual destination tours:
Virtual Expedition to the Galapagos with Lindblad
Paris from the Sky by Yann Arthus Bertrand - this is long but worth the watch!
Go Deeper - Context Conversations
Context Travel is offering Context Conversations, 90-minute scholar led seminars to help you take a deeper dive into your favorite museum or travel sight. For those of you with older children at home, this might be a great starting point for their next homework assignment.
Read
Reading has always been a great escape to discover new destinations (or to re-visit our favorite destinations) inside the page of a book. Here are some great suggestions in a variety of categories.
Just finished…All The Ways We Said Goodbye ~ A Novel Of Ritz Paris by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White
On my nightstand…Women In Sunlight by Frances Mayes
A few favorites:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Vacationers by Emma Straub
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Travel Home, Design with A Global Spirit by Caitlin Fleming and Julie Goebel
Italy, Escape or Beaches by Gray Malin
Any of Assouline’s travel books
Watch
There are so many great movies and TV shows that will allow you to travel the world via your TV Screen - here is what I have been watching lately:
via BBC UK
Movies:
The Trip to Italy (or any of the “Trip To” movies with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon - they are hilarious!)
TV Shows:
Taste
As long as we are all at home, why not hone your culinary and mixology skills with a few recipes from favorite destinations:
A Taste of Italy – recipes from our partners in Italy at IC Bellagio
8 Famous Hotel Dishes and Drinks You Can Recreate at Home
A Taste of Rocco Forte – recipes from Rocco Forte hotels around the world
And, be sure to click back to my previous post for Iconic Cocktails from Favorite Destinations Around the World
Listen
I am absolutely LOVING listening to Gray Malin’s Escape playlist on Spotify - go HERE…for more relaxing music check out the playlists by the Grand Hotel Tremezzo HERE.
Podcasts are also so inspiring - Dream Of Italy, Fathom’s A Way To Go and Bloomberg’s Travel Genius are a few of my faves.
Plan
I am here to help you plan ahead for when you can travel once again. It is time to be thinking about holiday travel and it isn’t too early to start planning for next year!
Please take care and stay safe!
xoxo