For every person, there is a ritual or moment that confirms we’re already on vacation. And for the journalist and photographer Miguel Carrizo, it’s a very precise one: “the day I wake up and don’t check the email. It’s like an official vacation declaration,” he tells Condé Nast Traveler. Only then, there is no other aim than to look out the window, listen, and feel the landscape and everything it offers. Because the beauty of a rural lodging is not only about enjoying the life you can lead there, but about expanding the experience beyond its walls. And this is something Airbnb knows very well.
The lodging is a dimension of travel, but not the only one. Often the journey begins earlier: “For me, it starts when I sit down to imagine it. Finding where I’m going to sleep, getting lost in the map, saving restaurants, thinking about what I’ll see… That pre-moment in which I already visualise myself there, is one of my favourite rituals. So I travel twice: when I dream it and when I live it,” says Miguel before revealing his favourite tool to escape: “Traveler’s Recommendation,” the Airbnb filter that shows rural accommodations best rated by other travelers. What better moment to use it than this Holy Week, a time that invites us to step off the hamster wheel, surround ourselves with loved ones, and “return to the countryside” in a different way.
The lodging is a dimension of travel, but not the only one. Often the journey begins earlier: “For me, it starts when I sit down to imagine it. Looking for where I will sleep, getting lost in the map, saving restaurants, thinking about what I will see… That pre-moment in which I already visualise myself there, is one of my favorite rituals. So I travel twice: when I dream it and when I live it,” says Miguel before revealing his favorite tool to escape: “Traveler’s Recommendation,” the Airbnb filter that shows rural accommodations best valued by other travelers. What better moment to use it than this Holy Week, a time that invites us to step off the hamster wheel, surround ourselves with loved ones and “return to the countryside” in a different way.
