Four years ago, Maison d'Amies was a sentence I said out loud to my hubby: "I want to start a small-group travel company for women, in France." That's it. That's all it was. And to his credit, he (as always) encouraged me to do the damn thing. Fast forward to today where I get to announce our full 2027 season: five retreats across France and the French Caribbean, each one built on the same belief that's carried this business from the beginning: that we deserve travel that feels like real...

People sometimes ask me how I design a retreat experience that feels so personal. How does it feel like someone actually knows you, even on the first trip? The honest answer isn't a system or a checklist. It's relationships. Years of them. Carefully tended ones, on both sides of the experience, with the women who travel with me, and with the remarkable local people who make what I do possible. That web of relationships is the real infrastructure of each Maison d'Amies women's retreat in...

I have a confession to make. I've spent years taking women to France...to Provence, Normandy, to Avignon and beyond. I know France the way you know a place you keep returning to year after year. And it keeps giving me something new every time I visit. And somehow I didn't even think about another huge part of France. Martinique is an overseas region of France. Not French-influenced or inspired by France. France. The currency is the euro, the language is French (which I actually did know)....