A four-time Best of Bermuda award winner (and one-time honorable mention), The Retreat caters to locals, expats, and tourists alike with its menu of environmentally conscious spa and beauty treatments. The Retreat largely uses products by the California-based brand Osea, reflecting Danks’s commitment to environmentally conscious wellness practices. Their seaweed-based products “tick all the boxes,” Danks says: Packaging is glass, not plastic; ingredients are vegan and cruelty-free; they smell good (and they work); and, what’s more, the brand also invests in shoreline restoration projects across the globe, in California, Kenya, Cambodia, and Indonesia. The spa’s longtime nail artist, Skye, is so popular that last year, she had to pause new client bookings. Even with a new artist on staff, there’s still a waitlist—but if you can nab a coveted appointment, expect delicately decorated, immaculately shaped talons. The eight-step Cellstory facial, a buzzy treatment that’s said to provide all the benefits of microneedling without, well, needles, is another specialty.

Tracee Ellis Ross may have perfected the art of travelling alone. In her new docuseries, Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, she shows herself preparing for trips to Marrakech, Morocco; Cancún, Mexico; and Marbella, Spain.

Two things are clear. First, the woman is not a minimalist — she packs for every scenario as well as for her own comfort. And second, fashion is essential. Ross stocks multiple suitcases with shoes and clothes, many in statement colours, patterns and silhouettes, and all chosen for their ability to bring her joy.

“I am sharing my particular version of solo travel, which is not about adventure,” she explains in one episode. “It’s about how I can experience my own company in a joyful, holistic way — while still being in beautiful places and discovering new things.”

The actress, 52, first travelled alone in her 20s. She was a model in the early 1990s (which could explain the fashion fixation) and went on to star in the TV shows Girlfriends and Black-ish.

But it’s in Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, now streaming three episodes on The Roku Channel, where she lets viewers see her as she is in real life: vulnerable yet vibrant. Sometimes Ross muses about being single, childless and occasionally lonely. Other times, she’s feeling fabulous and revelling in it.

In Marrakech, for example, she shops for rugs crafted by the Berber tribe. In Marbella, she samples artisan olive oils. In Cancún, she dons bright pink spandex for tennis — later it’s a red bikini for swimming in the rain.

That’s not to say everything goes smoothly. Downpours in Cancún mean indoor pursuits, and a raccoon raids the fruit in her room. Then en route to Marbella, Ross gets food poisoning. She’s bed-bound and eats rice cakes for supper. Phone calls to her brother and mother (singer Diana Ross) help her through.

For Ross, it’s all part of adapting to whatever life brings.

“So much of what travelling is about is, for me, not waiting for something in order to walk towards my life, in order to be in my life, in order to experience my life,” she says.

Ross then reflects on the time Oprah Winfrey called her the poster child for singledom.

“I don’t want to be that,” she explains. “I want to be the poster child for being an inhabitant in your own skin. For living in your own skin.”