Skindelle Stories

Lake Como: Villa Evenings and Lakeside Wedding Guest

Lake Como is not the place you go for a casual summer. It is the place you go when a casual summer is no longer enough. After the beach weeks where dressing meant sunscreen and a cover-up. After th...

Lima: The City That Dresses for Dinner in the Fog

The fog that changes what you wear Lima is the only major city in the Americas built on a coastal desert where it almost never rains but almost never stops being damp. The Humboldt Current runs no...

Hydra: No Cars, No Roads, Just Donkeys and Design

Hydra is the Greek island you go to after you have exhausted the other arguments. After Mykonos, about the night and the performance of it. After Santorini, about the view and the documentation of ...

Mykonos: Dressing from Beach Clubs to Dinner After Dark

Mykonos is the island people visit before they know better and then return to when they know exactly what they want. The first visit is about the clubs and the crowd. The return visits are about so...

Barcelona Summer Nights: Terrace Culture and Gothic Quarter Evenings

The City That Schedules Around the Heat Barcelona is not about the morning. The city runs a schedule calibrated to its climate: lunch at two, siesta through the afternoon, dinner at ten or later, ...

The Aeolian Islands: Volcanic Sand and Malvasia Sunsets

Stromboli erupts every twenty minutes Not catastrophically. A pulse of orange light from the summit crater, a small plume of grey ash that catches the wind and disperses over the Tyrrhenian Sea. F...