Yolanda Edwards

  • Dispatch from the Basque Coast

    Dispatch from the Basque Coast

    A last-minute trip to Biarritz—and a completely sold-out hotel scene—sent Yolanda exploring farther afield along the Basque Coast. She discovered just how close everything is: surf towns, seaside villages, and postcard-perfect countryside are often only 10 minutes apart. Here, her newly expanded list of where to stay, eat, drink, and shop from Biarritz to St.…

  • Dispatch From Cap Ferret

    Dispatch From Cap Ferret

    This narrow, pine-forested peninsula an hour from Bordeaux, where oyster shacks, sand dunes and charming villages sit between the Atlantic and Arcachon Bay, is a caught-in-time vacationland: barefoot and rustic, but incredibly chic.

  • Channeling: Cap Ferret

    Channeling: Cap Ferret

    There are some places that have such strong style codes that you leave them genuinely influenced. Cap Ferret is one of those places, and here’s how to conjure the vibe.

  • Amangiri, Canyon Point, Utah

    Amangiri, Canyon Point, Utah

    In short… A bucket-list hotel for design-centric travelers since it opened in 2009 in the middle of the most breathtaking landscape.

  • Turndown Photos

    Turndown Photos

    When Yolanda’s daughter was little she always brought a “friend” along on her travels, and Clara’s dad documented the imaginative nightly scenes that housekeeping created by tucking her stuffed animals into bed—in hotels from Mexico to Milan.

  • Herdade da Malhadinha Nova, Alentejo, Portugal

    Herdade da Malhadinha Nova, Alentejo, Portugal

    Herdade da Malhadinha Nova is a beautiful wine estate in the southern Alentejo with 24 rooms scattered throughout the 1,800 acre property.

  • Venice Through a Craft Lens

    Venice Through a Craft Lens

    Venice has always been a city of makers, where extraordinary craftsmanship hides in plain sight. We asked architects, hoteliers, designers, and lifelong Venetians to share the ateliers, workshops, museums, shops, and hotels they return to again and again.

  • Dispatch from Ischia

    Dispatch from Ischia

    This island may feel a world away, but it’s only a 50-minute ferry from Naples; completely down to earth and unfussy—nothing like its better known sister, Capri.

  • My Summer in Rome List

    My Summer in Rome List

    A game plan for staying cool in the heat, plus our favorite new hotel and beach club discoveries