Summer Rewind: Four Travel Stories To Satisfy Your Wanderlust

We are now entering day number 37,4569,817 of the COVID-19 pandemic, or at least it feels that way. For obvious safety reasons, many people’s summer vacations have been either postponed or canceled altogether. And if you live in the United States, the insult on top of injury of the EU banning American travelers for the foreseeable future from the entire continent of Europe is just the icing on the cake.

Perhaps not all is lost, as some are managing to venture out for small trips, traveling by wheels instead of wings. A side effect of this crisis is that we are forced to make the most of what’s already around us. For travelers, this means rediscovering your own country as if visiting for the first time. And for watch fans, this can mean falling in love again with the pieces that have long been banished to your sock drawer.
 

The good news is that this crisis won’t last forever. We will one day return to our globetrotting ways, and we’ll do so with a renewed appreciation that only a global lockdown can bring. In the meantime, we continue to bide our time and dream of exotic landscapes beyond our desktop backgrounds.

To help satisfy your wanderlust, we at Watchonista have rounded up four travel stories from our editorial adventures. These stories will take you through the glacial waters of Lake Brienz with Doxa, trackside at Formula One with Ferrari and Hublot, down the winding roads of southern Spain with Richard Mille, and to the heart of Germany with NOMOS Glashütte. So without further ado, please buckle your seatbelts and put your tray table in its upright and locked position...
 

How does a classic car rally with Richard Mille through the hills of southern Spain sound? Not bad, right? In March, Watchonista Contributor Frédéric Brun told the epic story of a three-day jaunt through one of Europe’s most beautiful landscapes alongside a privileged few collectors, horological wonders, and some stunning classic cars. Need I say more?
 

When Germany calls, you answer. This two-part travel story begins in NOMOS’s swanky design studio in Berlin, where we see the origins of the brand’s signature visual language and even take a peek at some delightful designs that were left on the cutting room floor. We then take the early train through Saxony and arrive at their mountain manufacture in the town of Glashütte. For anyone who dreamed of visiting Willy Wonka’s factory as a kid, this is the adventure for you.