stay-guide
A Week at Tropicalia: Your Stay Guide
Five cottages, never more than ten guests, a seven-night minimum and a rhythm that takes three days to find. Everything to know before you arrive, day by day.
garden
What We Plant, and Why
Every bed at the villa has a job: feeding the kitchen, calling the pollinators or holding the soil together. A walk through our planting logic, one bed at a time.
surfing
Surf Lesson Day: What Actually Happens
A first surf lesson is mostly sand, laughing and falling off. Our guide on how the day goes from the wax to the last wave, and what to leave to the instructors.
market
A Market Morning in the Village
Every Wednesday we drive down the hill with empty baskets and come back with a truck full of fruit, fish and gossip. Here's how to do the village market properly.
garden
The Garden at Dusk
The hour between daylight and dark is when our garden changes shift: the heat lets go, the frogs start up and the whole place smells of wet leaves and basil.
breakfast
Breakfast on the Veranda, Before the Heat Arrives
Warm eggs from our own hens, rice and beans in a black pan, fruit that fell off the tree an hour ago and coffee from the co-op down the road. Come hungry.