Skindelle Stories

Marrakech: Riads, Rooftop Dinners, and Desert Evenings

Marrakech is the city that turns inward. The streets in the medina are narrow, the walls are plain, the doors are heavy and studded with brass nails and tell you nothing about what is behind them. ...

Oaxaca: Mezcal Rooms, Textile Markets, and Courtyard Dinners

The altitude arrives before the heat does At 1,550 metres, Oaxaca City sits in the central valleys of the Sierra Madre del Sur and the evenings stay at 20 degrees when the rest of Mexico is sweati...

Milos: Moonscape Geology and Fishing Village Dinners

Milos does not look like anywhere else in the Cyclades. The island is volcanic, and the geology is visible at the surface in a way that you do not get in Paros or Naxos or even Santorini. At Saraki...

Lisbon: Rooftop Bars, Alfama Nights, and Bairro Alto

Lisbon is the European capital that survived an earthquake, a tsunami, and a fire on the same morning, the first of November 1755, and rebuilt itself within three years under the direction of one m...

Noto and Southeast Sicily: Baroque Stone and 38-Degree Evenings

Sicily has the best baroque in Europe, and the southeast has the best baroque in Sicily. This is not an opinion held loosely. After the 1693 earthquake levelled eleven cities across the Val di Noto...

Mediterranean Summer: Dressing for Heat with Intention

The Logic of Dressing in Heat Heat changes the logic of getting dressed. In the Mediterranean in July, the woman who looks right has solved a problem in advance, and the solution is always the sam...