"In People We Meet on Vacation, we follow travel writer Poppy Wright and Alex Nilsen as they navigate their friends-to-lovers trajectory over the years. The plot homes in on their annual week's summer holiday throughout their friendship, revealing their history to the viewer through a series of flashbacks that take place across the world, with scenes set everywhere from Ohio to Tuscany. But where, exactly, did Netflix film the adaptation?"
"At the beginning of the film, we learn that Alex's brother, David, is getting married in Spain, and that both Poppy and Alex will attend, bringing the pair together in the film's present-day timeline. It's perhaps unsurprising, then, that the cast and crew headed to Spain to film. It might surprise you more, however, to learn that northeastern Spain also stood in as Squamish, Canada, where our main characters head for a camping trip in a flashback."
"A Spanish landscape also stood in for Tuscany, another flashback location which Alex and Poppy visit with their partners at the time. The Catalonian village of Llagostera takes a starring role in these scenes. The scene, which mimics the book cover, where Poppy and Alex recline on sunloungers, meanwhile, was shot near Casa de Santa Clotilde, where the wedding is taking place, at Sa Boadella Beach."
People We Meet on Vacation is a feature film released 9 January 2026 starring Emily Bader and Tom Blyth. The story follows travel writer Poppy Wright and Alex Nilsen as their friends-to-lovers relationship develops across years, centered on an annual weeklong summer holiday and revealed through worldwide flashbacks from Ohio to Tuscany. Principal photography took place largely in Spain. Northeastern Spain doubled for Squamish, Canada, in a camping-trip flashback. The Catalonian village of Llagostera stood in for Tuscany scenes. Wedding sequences and the sunlounger scene near Casa de Santa Clotilde were filmed at Sa Boadella Beach.
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