It's Cobi, yes. Coby with a beard. Cobi with a mobile. Cobi thirty years after those Olympic Games that they changed Barcelona forever. It is dizzying to think that we are already in 2022, but seeing Cobi so pimpante encourages us to think that Nostalgia is reached by living in the present. There is no other.
Having said that, I cannot continue these lines without saying a huge thank you to Javier Marshal for having accepted a challenge that no one had ever thrown at him, as he confirmed to louis ricart , author together with the photographer nacho errando of the fantastic report on the Barcelona of 92 seen with today's eyes that you will read in the pages of the new number of Condé Nast Traveler.
Let's see, we just wanted to hear from Cobi, find out how he was doing and see how he was Thirtysomething beard. And share it with you. Because on this trip we are also going together, one that goes from recover the illusion, also for our beloved Barcelona, with this gift of Marshal which makes the first cover of the year for Condé Nast Traveler Spain a collector's item. Don't throw it away.
Mariscal's exclusive illustration for Condé Nast Traveler: Cobi today.
That life begins again when we pluck the calendar is more than known, but before this one that starts with the two ducklings, one of us doesn't even know what to say. Or how to be optimistic, even being so, without screwing up.
The onslaught of the pandemic, which refuses to give us a break, forces us to a constant carpe diem –it's his thing, I'll tell you– for which any last minute plans has already become the best of adventures, any trip here or there, any last minute booking a hotel of those to stay to live.
In one at random, choose the tuntún, of our Gold List , which each year rewards the best hotels in the world And this time he returns in a big way. To the world Because, for the first time in history, those of us who make Condé Nast Traveler in Spain, India, Italy, the Middle East, China, the United States and the United Kingdom We have selected 32 essential classics of the world hotel industry and, among them, three Spaniards.
A list that is thus added to the usual one, in which we have once again chosen our favorites from Spain and Portugal, an appendix for continents and the Destinations nationals and international most desired.
You have a lot of chicha here to look to the future, to this hopeful 2022, wanting a full suitcase, thanks also to stories like the ones you will read in A lifetime traveling with you , a heartfelt tribute from the journalist Xenia Lobo to some of the industry veterans that happier has made us, makes us and will make us.
Traveling is nothing more than living, so by now you should be choosing your immediate carpe diem. Dear 2022: don't want us still.
Javier Mariscal sitting on a stool of his own design in the gardens of Palo Alto.