I loved growing up in Barcelona.
28.08.2024 - 14:13 / insider.com
I never feel smaller than when I'm sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon, a natural world wonder visible from outer space.
I've been to the national park three times — and I know I'll travel back again and again throughout my life.
With expansive views of eroded rocks that formed over millions of years, it's easy to see why the Grand Canyon is one of the most visited national parks in the US and has been overcrowded in recent years.
In the summer, I've seen people pack themselves onto the edges of the canyon, obstructing views of one of the most beautiful places in the country — but only on the South Rim.
But in my experience, the other side of the canyon known as the North Rim is the park's best-kept secret. While the South Rim has roughly 4 million annual visitors, the North Rim has less than 1 million, according to Southwest Media Communications.
I visited the South Rim once in 2022 and the North Rim twice — most recently in 2019.
While the South Rim was packed with cars and crowds when I went, I've only had a peaceful, remote experience on the North Rim that took me out of the stress of my busy lifestyle. It's a hidden gem in the otherwise crowded national park.
I loved growing up in Barcelona.
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Clarksville, a historic district of Austin, Texas, has lately emerged as a stylish dining and shopping enclave. Among the area’s most compelling new businesses is La Embajada, a design shop housed in a 1923 Craftsman bungalow. Combining the hospitality and interiors expertise of its founder, Raul Cabra — who has designed tableware for some of Mexico City’s most celebrated restaurants, including Rosetta and Pujol — La Embajada presents a refined, regionally diverse selection of Mexico’s artisanal offerings. A series of small rooms display vintage and contemporary furniture, from stately midcentury armchairs and 1970s glass sconces to a minimalist agave fiber rug by the Oaxaca-based textile artist Trine Ellitsgaard. The house is also an actual residence. Cabra often stays in the bedroom up the creaky stairs, and he’s recently made it available for short-term stays (bookings include a daily basket of baked goods from Austin’s Swedish Hill). Guests can purchase the room’s handmade décor, such as a pair of sleek bedside lamps in milky white onyx, a 1960s La Malinche dresser and a bedspread from a Michoacan manufacturer that once supplied Herman Miller. Downstairs, glassware, candles and gifts fill a section modeled after a typical general store in a small Mexican town. But La Embajada’s heart is its inviting kitchen, where visiting chefs cook elaborate meals and staff prepare ice cream and coffee. In another twist, every bespoke detail — including a hammered copper sink, caramel-colored tiles and waxed pine cabinets — can be custom-ordered for one’s own home.
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scarlett Kiaras-Attari, a marketing executive and education content creator who moved to the UK for her studies. It has been edited for length and clarity.
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