Skindelle Stories

Pantelleria: The Island for People Tired of Islands

Pantelleria is the island you find after you have exhausted the Italian coast. After the Amalfi, which is about the view from the terrace. After Capri, which is about the boat and the grotto and th...

Lamu: Swahili Architecture and Indian Ocean Dhow Sunsets

No motor vehicles That is the fact about Lamu that organises everything else. The town runs on foot and donkey, the same transport logic it has used for seven centuries, and the effect on the stre...

Ibiza: Day to Night and the Dress Code Nobody Explains

Ibiza is not what it became in the 1990s. That version of the island, the superclub version, still exists and still packs in its audience. But the island that serious visitors have been coming to s...

Cannes: Film Festival Season and Yacht Dinners

Cannes in May is not Cannes. It is thirteen days in which a city of 75,000 people is replaced by a different city, denser and louder and operating on an entirely different social logic, and then it...

Tulum: Beach Weddings, Cenotes, and Jungle Evenings

Tulum is the Riviera Maya after the Riviera Maya became too much of itself. After Cancun, which is about the resort strip. After Playa del Carmen, which is about the pedestrian zone. Tulum is about...

Cannes: Film Festival Season and Yacht Dinners

Cannes in May is not Cannes. It is thirteen days in which a city of 75,000 people is replaced by a different city, denser and louder and operating on an entirely different social logic, and then it...