Journal

Last weekend, Solwyn took a ride into the hills of Girona - driven only by the name Mas Margot. A hidden gem freshly opened in May that sits quietly among forests and stone, the kind of place you don’t find by chance but by intention.

Hidden in the hills of Garrotxa, Can Buch isn’t a place you simply book, it’s a place that receives you. The moment you arrive, you sense a quiet world already in motion, shaped by eight people who live and work side by side as a genuine community.

Malauva Casa Agricola is a small countryside estate on the Alfina plateau where a young family has turned a derelict farm into a living home for natural wine, hospitality, and a slower way of being. It's the kind of place where guests wake up to vineyard light instead of notifications, and where "staying" quickly feels more like being welcomed into a life than checking into a room.

There's a moment in every story where someone stops asking what if and starts asking what now.

Some dreams don't announce themselves suddenly, they simmer quietly for years, waiting for the right moment to become real.

The first impression isn’t of a hotel. It’s of a tiny stone village. The main house, the barn, the courtyard, the pool, the gardens - all encapsulated within the same set of weathered walls, all built from local rock, all standing in some form for four hundred years.