Grand Journeys

The Wide Sargasso Sea bonds Miami’s artistic soul to the medinas of Morocco, a silvery web between Antillean atolls charmed by calypso and obsidian beaches under African skies. Barcelona’s modernist masterpieces bridge enlightened lands, from Spanish harbours and sun-soaked Mediterranean isles to Portuguese ports and the primordial kingdoms of the Azores; woven together in a singular journey across time and tide.

Mango martinis and rum-soaked punch meet cask-aged wines and sublime sherries, leisurely libations that unite people and cultures. Tapering tagines pots distil the soul of a nation in the souqs of Morocco, where fragrant saffron and piquant paprika traverse the Mediterranean to permeate Spanish paellas. Coconut and lime give flavour to life in wild Caribbean kitchens, and the world comes together in the refined restaurants and street shacks of Miami, a moveable feast of culinary creativity.

New chapters are written upon well-known legends as we travel between worlds, tracing the journeys of merchants and myths in the greatest of the seven seas. Galleons loaded with gold and ideas have chased the sun for 500 years, to new lands in the west and royal courts in the east. Interweaving new dawns and unscripted tomorrows with courtly cities and vine-tangled islands.

Colours of the sky and ocean are inverted as we flirt with the Tropic of Cancer along an endless palette of bottomless blues that meet on a razor-straight horizon. From the jungle-covered folds of Lesser Antillean islands to the primordial peaks of the Azores, a deluge of green bookends our crossing. Kaleidoscopic coral reefs, tropical feathers and ochre sands creep into the landscape and pop our two-tone bubble before tangerine sunsets give way to inky night.