May Journey Diary – by Yolanda Edwards

I’m all the time writing these journey diaries not less than a few weeks after the actual fact. Because I don’t all the time have time to put in writing them within the second, and since I’m touring a lot, after I do sit all the way down to doc my month of journey it could actually really feel overwhelming. I hope they don’t learn like a “what I did this summer” report—or in the event that they do and also you’d moderately I skip this type of content material, please TELL me! I believe Club Yolo appears like the very best house for my private travels—particularly once they’re fast and span a number of locations that no rational traveler would mix (like proper now I’m coming off of a two-week streak that took me from Corsica to Provence to St. Tropez to Rome to Florence to Warsaw to Portugal!). Whereas our Yolo Journal web site is house to our deeper-dive journey articles that target single locations or sensible/actionable itineraries. I do know our cut up between two platforms could be complicated, however as I wish to say, consider our web site because the library and Club Yolo because the cafe subsequent door. Both serve a definite and complementary objective.

And to that finish, we genuinely wish to hear from you right here! In addition to speaking to us within the feedback, if you happen to’re a paid subscriber you should use the Chat, the place there’s a superb quantity of forwards and backwards over journey questions and proposals. So tell us: what accommodations you’re loving or are dissatisfied in, what cities or locations would you like us to do a deep dive on, the place are you going this summer season that you simply want recs for? And since a few of you might have been asking in DM about what I’m sporting on my travels, I put my MVP journey items right here in this ShopMy link.

I spent every week on the finish of April and early May in Catania, Etna and Taormina. I hadn’t been to Taormina since 2021, pre-White Lotus. Not gonna lie, I used to be fearful it was going to be a totally completely different vibe. Other than extra luxurious manufacturers than earlier than, and a few new additions to the meals and cocktail scene, it fortunately felt the identical. Plus I discovered a very cool tennis membership. I wrote all about it in this Dispatch.

We have been invited to the seventy fifth anniversary of Le Sirenuse, which kicked off with the opening of their new Sirenuse Mare Beach Club. I’d seen it very a lot in construction-site mode a number of years again, and it was so nice to expertise it in all of its glory—the vegetation have are available in, the area is beautiful, and I can’t wait to spend a protracted lunch and afternoon right here. More than a few folks have requested me if it’s a stroll from