Antarctica by Diego Martínez
Never in a year had he said goodbye with his ears so down and never had the welcome after the grapes been imagined more euphoric. poor 2021 , you land with skyrocketing expectations, with the obligation, and we don't want “buts”, to make us forget months of nightmares at a stroke. It does not seem an easy task, and yet I trust that being optimistic will give us a good cable.
At Condé Nast Traveler we have been so all our lives even more so in these months because if not what . We have traveled little almost nothing , but we have crossed to infinity and beyond looking for a way to move, to move, to prepare with emotion a lap that seems slower than we long for, but it will come.
Without looking back and heading for the road. Because if not what?
And here you have us one more year without looking back and heading up the road , the one you see in the photo, the one that is any road because the journey is not the destination. It's the thrill . That is why we trust that you have bought this magazine not because your immediate plan is to go to the Antarctica –hopefully–, but because emotion has dragged you to the most fascinating and mysterious continent on Earth. Diego Martinez , author of the cover and report that you will find in your kiosk from December 29 –and that will make your head spin, literally–, embarked on such an icy adventure just a year ago and for three months , so on his return he found a world changed, a world turned upside down , even more so than the one he had just explored.
From there he returned with photographs, with anecdotes full of trembling, with a whiskey on the antarctic rocks as a promise fulfilled and, most importantly, with the already indelible emotion . Going to Antarctica means a lot, a lot: check the beating that the place that in 2020 celebrated the bicentennial of its discovery is suffering At the same time that it broke temperature records –almost 21ºC in February– it reminds us that the matter is not for jokes. And that these months of parentheses should also serve us to correct mistakes, to be better travelers from optimism, never from utopia.
Condé Nast Traveler Spain in January
You will find examples in this issue through closer and more tangible plans, such as that of a Pre-pandemic Venice but with its own pandemic on its shoulders, that of massive and thunderous tourism that from one day to the next gave way to crystal clear waters and viral photographs that we all share.
It is now that we want to return to Venice – to Venice always – the time to consider how to do it, how to ensure that the most beautiful city in the world does not end up devoured by ourselves . In Ribeira Sacra you will read that the opposite happens: the locals say that there are sustainable since before the one who invented it because let's see, they have no other choice. Help each other, lend a hand and rethink locally It shouldn't just be a cool trend, but a firm bet against the tentacles of a frenetic globalization that, if nobody fixes it – you, me – will end up stamping against its own dictates.
The wild postcard of the Norwegian fjords , the simplicity of a cabin in a Segovian valley , the Costa Rican purity , cultural residences for new nomads ... everything in these pages wants to draw your great trip of 2021. Which will be where you want, where you can. Just make it exciting.
Very happy year.
Very happy new year, traveler