Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and this is a women who travel episode about food and cooking

that makes you happy. I'm talking to Yasmin Farr, who went from being an undercover hotel and

restaurant critic, eating meals that lasted hours in the world's best restaurants and staying in luxury

hotels, from Brazil to China, to a dramatic change in her professional and personal life.

I was undercover and I did have a fake name with a credit card. I mean, for restaurants, I could use

it, not for hotels,

of course, or we'd have someone come with me to kind of be my cover. It was great, but there were

definitely moments when it felt lonely also to be in this beautiful, romantic resort by myself.

I'm kind of looking around being like, what am I doing here, you know?

Yasmin is talking to me today from her new home on the low-key island of Manorca.

Not to be confused with its noisier and more touristy neighbors,

Mallorca and Ibiza.

I do think, I mean, it's a beautiful island.

It's relatively small.

I mean, you can drive across it in about 45 minutes,

and there's one May Road, which everything is kind of peaked off of

and the north is beautiful there's like beautiful like red rocks the south has this beautiful white

sand and clear water I think I'm obviously in love with this place so I probably will talk about it a lot

but oh well we're going to get really into Monarchus soon. Don't worry. Okay.

I'm going to make you talk about it.

So I was going through just kind of your bio and your travels when you were at Forbes.

So just tell me a little bit about that time and that job because it sounds like those travels really led up to what you're doing now.

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