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10/22/2026

Designed & Delivered: Christmas in London for two families.

Nine travelers, from 13 to adult. Boxing Day to New Year’s Day. And one ask that set the tone for everything: Hamilton, in the West End, during Christmas week. Nine seats together, in the busiest theater week of the year.

That was the hard part. The real design challenge was quieter: how do you plan a week that thrills a 13 year old, a 16 year old and their parents at the same time? And make it feel shared, not negotiated?

It started with home base. A boutique hotel tucked into a quiet yard steps from Piccadilly. Every room individually designed, a library with a fireplace, a vintage bowling alley downstairs. The kind of place everyone is happy to come back to on a cold December evening.

Then the pacing. Nobody navigates after an overnight flight; a classic double decker carries everyone through the Christmas lights instead. Mornings are guided where history needs a storyteller. That means the Tower, the Abbey, and a British Museum scavenger hunt that turns a museum visit into a competition. Afternoons stay open for markets, LEGO, and Jellycat. Choices are built in, not forced: South Bank or Winter Wonderland, decided on the day.

And something for every fan in the family: Hogwarts in the snow, Ted Lasso’s Richmond, a Premier League night, and those nine seats at Hamilton.

The itinerary was never the point. The feeling was. Teenagers who actually want to be there, and parents who get to enjoy it with them.

10/21/2026

Designed & Delivered: Easter in Italy for a family that would rather do than watch.

Some families want to slow down. This one wanted to see it all, taste it all, and make a few things with their own hands along the way.

Nine days. Venice, then Bologna, then Rome. The family lands in Venice on Good Friday and is met by a water taxi. That evening there is a cicchetti crawl through the backstreet taverns and then the Grand Canal at dusk. The next day brings St. Mark’s and the Doge’s Palace, then a Murano furnace where everyone blows their own glass. On Easter Sunday morning there is one last gondola ride before the train south. The clocks spring forward that same morning. Then come Modena’s balsamic cellars, an F1 simulator in Maranello, a Parmigiano dairy and a culatello cellar outside Parma. Rome follows by golf cart, with the Vatican dome climb, a pasta class, the Colosseum underground, and an e-bike ride down the Appian Way into the catacombs.

The design challenge wasn’t filling the days. This family would have filled them on their own. The challenge was making a packed itinerary feel exciting rather than exhausting, during the busiest week of the Italian year. That meant putting the Easter weekend in Venice and giving Emilia-Romagna the quieter middle chapter, a pause for the senses between two of Italy’s most visited cities. It also meant a private handoff at every station and dock, and connecting rooms in every city so the family always comes back to one shared home base. Each day balances one big landmark with one hands-on moment. The family leaves with things they made, not just things they saw.

Fast can still feel effortless. It just has to be designed that way.

10/20/2026

Designed & Delivered: The French Riviera, à la carte.

A 60th birthday deserves a hostess who actually gets to enjoy her own party.

The brief was simple: let her be with her people. The Souvenir & Far team will handle all the logistics.

Two weeks on the Côte d’Azur with friends and family means many different ideas of a perfect day. Some guests want to slide into waterfalls in the Gorges du Loup. Some want a long lunch at anchor off the Lérins Islands. Some want nothing more than a sunbed and a glass of rosé.

So instead of a fixed itinerary, we designed a menu. Sea days to Saint-Tropez and Monaco. Perfume making in Grasse. Market mornings and Picasso in Antibes. W**e in the hills above Nice. A helicopter over the coastline. Pétanque on the villa’s own court as the light turns gold. Guests choose what speaks to them, and every active outing has a gentler alternative for anyone who would rather skip the hike.

The real design work lives in what nobody sees. Pacing eight to ten experiences across two weeks so the villa still feels like home, not a departure lounge. Splitting sea days across two yachts because the rules change once you pass twelve passengers on board. Holding a place for fireworks over the bay until the summer calendar is published. Every transfer, table and timing handled quietly behind the scenes.

10/13/2026

I realized something this week: a lot of you probably think I travel for fun. 😄

In a world of email and AI, I’m old school. I want to sit across a dinner table from the hotel owner, the guide, the driver, the logistics team. Meet their families. Talk about what my clients actually want. Hear what’s really happening on the ground.

That’s why, when you call me about your trip, I’m not sending you to a name on a website. I’m sending you to someone I’ve shared a meal with.

Sardinia was a work trip. I attended TRUE Sardinia, an invitation-only event that brings luxury travel advisors face to face with the island’s hotels, guides and experience designers. Then I spent 8 days seeing properties with my own eyes and personally experiencing the activities I recommend.

You can book travel. I know travel. And I know the people who make it happen. 🇮🇹

10/08/2026

🤫 TOP SECRET 🤫
I can’t even post photos of what I saw! I was the ONLY travel advisor allowed on property at Hotel Pitrizza during the renovations. (Seriously! It was so cool!!)

This iconic Italian hideaway, originally designed by architect Luigi Vietti in the 1960s, is being reborn as Cheval Blanc Pitrizza, and I got the full insider tour. I saw the new decor up close, walked the property with the people making it happen, and talked through their plans for what’s coming.

Swipe ➡️ for a few official renderings... but trust me, these don’t do it justice! What I saw in person? INSANELY amazing. 🤍

Dreaming of summer 2027 in Sardinia? Reach out and let’s talk before everyone else catches on.

LuxuryTravel TravelAdvisor InsiderAccess Italy

09/29/2026

Just back from inspecting the La Dolce Vita Orient Express train in Rome.

If Venice and Rome are both on your list, you can combine them with 1 or 2 nights onboard.

The one-night option leaves Venice in the evening and stops in Siena or Florence the next day before arriving in Rome, while the two-night trips start and end in Rome with Venice and Tuscany along the way.

If you’re curious whether it’s a fit for your trip, send me a message and I’ll share what I saw.

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