Travel + Leisure August 2022

Anaïs Boileau A PICTURE OF PROVENCE (P. 162) Boileau had only to take a short drive from her home in Nîmes to photograph the region in southeastern France. “I was impressed by the relationship between art, nature, and architecture,” she says. “The towns are provincial yet have a real dialogue with contemporary art.” Jennifer Hattam SACRED WATERS Hattam, a journalist who focuses on environmental, social, and urban issues in stories for Bloomberg, National Geographic, and others, wrote about the Lakes Region of her adopted home country of Turkey. “I always love rambling around an ancient ruin,” she says. “And having so many all to myself on this trip was a real treat.” Chris Wallace LESSONS FROM A LOST WORLD (P. 22) The N.Y.C.-based writer and photographer cruised the Galápagos to explore a part of the globe “enchanted by…

OUR TRAIN FROM LONDON pulled in to Gleneagles station just before six in the evening. The sky was a misty gray, but we’d still seen no rain after three days in Great Britain. Who travels to the U.K. in April, expecting nothing but good weather? This family trip, it turns out, had been timed just perfectly: London was in bloom with gorgeous red and yellow tulips by Buckingham Palace. We could have dinner outdoors, long into the night at places like the Dalloway Terrace (dallowayterrace.com; entrées $23–$48), in Bloomsbury, and take leisurely walks around Knightsbridge, where the streets, ready to welcome back tourists, seemed to sparkle anew. Scotland, too, put on a show for us. Or rather, Gleneagles (gleneagles.com; doubles from $720) did. The 233-bedroom country estate—voted by our readers as…

A GLOBETROTTER’S GUIDE TO THE LATEST IN TRAVEL FOR ALL THE natural marvels of the Galápagos—and they are truly marvelous—it is a man-made monument I think about when I try to make sense of my time there early this year. Well, part monument, part desecration. A piece of graffiti, of all things, carved into the volcanic rock at Tagus Cove, on the island of Isabela, where seafarers of all sorts have left their imprint over the past 200 years. There are scrawls made years before Charles Darwin and the Beagle landed, in 1835, and spray-paint from well after Isabela’s infamous penal colonies closed down in the late 1950s. One of the older etchings, carved into the rock in stencil-perfect all-caps sans serif, reads simply WANDERLURE. As in, I imagine, the subject or…

IN THE MIDST of the pandemic, 31-year-old writer Mickie Meinhardt left her busy literary life in Brooklyn and moved back home to Ocean City, Maryland. During lockdown, she decided to open the resort town’s only bookstore, the Buzzed Word (thebuzzedword.com), on the edge of the North Ocean City neighborhood. This cozy space doubles as a natural-wine bar, and the majority of books it stocks are by writers of color, including works in translation from around the world. The shop supports the local LGBTQ community as well—it even planned the city’s first Pride event in June. Meinhardt and I met in 2015, when she enrolled in the MFA fiction program I teach at the New School in New York City. At the time, she was working on a novel that examined the…

MARCO ARGÜELLO CAMERA Sony A7 III ($2,000; electronics.sony.com) ACCESSORY Tenba Byob 10 case ($56; tenba.com) “I always pack my Sony A7 in the Tenba camera case when I travel. I like it because it’s light, small, and unobtrusive. I used the A7 to get this candid photo of my wife, Stefani, and her childhood best friend, who came to visit us in Athens in 2019. We all took a beach holiday to the island of Hydra. I love the slightly tilted composition and how the warm light gives shape to their arms and legs.” NANCY LOVA CAMERA Canon EOS 77d ($720; shop.usa.canon.com) ACCESSORY Joby GorillaPod tripod (from $14; joby.com) “I have a fascination with the Ottoman era and the patterns and details of Islamic architecture. I finally went to Istanbul for the first time in 2020, on…

You got your start in the music business while working at a Jamaican resort. Can you tell me about that? I was seeing the daughter of the couple who owned Half Moon (halfmoon.com; doubles from $375), in Montego Bay, and she got me a job teaching guests to water-ski. One evening there was a Bermudan jazz pianist called Lance Hayward playing at the hotel. I’d had a couple drinks and said, “I’d love to record you.” I knew nothing about recording at all. But I booked a studio in Kingston, and we did the first recording ever to be released on Island Records. I knew then it was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Around that time, you also worked on the set of the first James…