So I promised some more pics from the X2 Resort and a lady keeps her promise!
Now we allready moved on to the island of Koh Phangan.
The internet is very slow but I will get back to you all soon with some longtail cowboys,
shacks on poles and rickety bridges.

But first the X2:

We stayed in a small garden villa. Big windows and big sliding glass doors.
I love big sliding doors. When inside and outside can become as one!

There is also a huge over the top villa with pool. I sneaked in and took some photo’s for you!
Big enough for two couples and outside swimmingpool and a tub.

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Above the pool by night and the reception area.

To connect all the different villas there was a wooden landing between patches of green.

And a smaller pool villa - I sneaked in there too just to give you the feeling of it!

Hotel sheets are the best. (No Beppe is the best.) But hotel sheets makes the sleep such a bliss.
I want that at home as well! The well ironed and washed feeling of sheets.
Like the ones I have been saving since the 70’s. They are still the best.
When the cotton are on the final hour…

We have been staying at the X2 Resort in the island of Koh Samui in Thailand.
It’s part of Design Hotels and is an orgie of huge palm trees, wooden elements and lots of sweet concrete.
For me it brings back memories of Brazil. The arcitecture mixed with nature.
Here are some details that I really enjoy.
Tomorrow I think I will show you the bigger picture.

Detail from the shower which has a backlite- it creates a dramatic effect I think is stuning!

Imagine a house without windows or doors - just open space.
Growing up in Sweden that’s unthinkable.
I love the way that the legs of the tables in the restaurant bend in different ways.

Concrete jungle!

The curtains are all made of heavy linen. And about 30 cm to long. Loving it!

Even if the power is cut you can do it in style.

Sitting on the lo watching the bamboo garden. I wanna do this in the country place in Sweden.
No magazines are needed with a great view.

Around the pool there is a normal plastic drainage. Just smartly covered up with stones.

As if the pool wasn’t enough. A bath in plain air. And the vivid art the moist makes in the concrete.

It’s nice to stay at a place a bit more minimalistic than what I normally enjoy at home.

So I stayed a week at this beautiful hotel/resort called Doryssa Bay in Samos - Greece.
It’s an old building right by the beach that they turned into a design hotel a couple of years ago.
There is a village part - built like an old village with different houses or the hotel.
I really enjoyed the details.
Like how they made the floor in the lounge, the white wall in the restaurant made of old olive oil barrels,
the leaves in the glass screen, the epoxy floor in the lobby with small dry flowers,
the lobbylounge with stones and loads of random lights.
The big barrels made of old tyres and the benches of massive wood.
Sweet.
Well the resort was perfect for quiet families with children or older people. I didn’t enjoy the food that much.
I also must say that the service wasn’t great but overal ok.
The strange thing was that the airport was like 300 m from the resort wich gave a influence of beeing in Top Gun
a couple of times a day. I thought it was cool - not disturbing.
I will edit  a movie soon so you can see more!