Many Travel Belles are avid readers. We enjoy soaking up as much as we can about various destinations around the world through literary travel, both up close through our travels and through reading. Book reviews. Literary travel destinations.
The new trend isn’t about real books versus the Kindle or the iPad. Reading someone else’s book is one of the latest things to do in an airport Reading the old fashioned way on a train platform, but many public areas aren’t far behind. To me, traveling and carrying a book go hand in hand. [...]
Literary Rome through literature get ready for your visit Rome is an overwhelming city: layer on layer, history on history. To sort through it would take a lifetime and I’ve started too late. The advantage of the tourist is that they arrive at their destination with a list of places and things that interests them. [...]
Books about cooks I’m married to a chef whom I’ve known since he was a teenager. He was spinning pizzas when I first met him. Twenty five years later, he’s the head chef at two restaurants we co-own. Sometimes when I meet people and they hear my husband is a chef, they’re envious. They’ll say, [...]
Travel Book Reviews: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost, A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure by Rachel Friedman We’ve all been there; that moment when we wonder what on earth we are doing with our lives – what the point is – what our purpose is. A native New [...]
A French cooking memoir that moves to the top of the reading pile Whenever I am asked the question “If you won the lottery where would you do?” my first thought is always Paris followed closely by Le Cordon Bleu. Everyone has a bucket list, you know the places and things you want to do [...]
Capturing Love and Light—Monet’s “Pretty Woman,” a review of Stephanie Cowell’s 2010 book Claude and Camille : A Novel of Monet I could say that Claude Monet’s artwork was my “muse” in writing this book review, but if I did I’d be committing word-crime, generalizing in such a way that diffuses the term’s emotive force [...]
Get inspired by seeing Paris on film before you go to see the real thing with these 5 movie choices Amélie One of the most internationally successful French Films, Amélie shot its star, Audrey Tatou, to worldwide fame in 2001. A portrait of Paris painted in muted colours and imbued with a heady dose of [...]
Let me take you on a journey. We’ll stop in five countries on three different continents. We will sample the most evocative, sensuous and fabulous food and drink on offer. But wait, put your passport down, don’t stress about packing. The only thing you need for this adventure is a good imagination.
Rome’s influence on literature has been perennial. From the time of Ovid and Virgil to the Anglo-Saxon influx of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne and young John Keats, all the way up to the more recent time of Alberto Moravia and Carlo Emilio Gadda, Rome has captured the imagination and thoughts of many great writers.
Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse, was the book which led me to Carcassonne, a town in the South of France. In simple terms, this is a time-slip, grail-quest novel, but this does it would be a disservice to say this book is just like The Da Vinci Code. Labyrinth is not merely a holiday read, jumping on the Grail bandwagon; it is well-researched and rich in historical fact, combined with a touch of magic.
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Having lived and taught English in South Korea for the last nine months, it’s difficult to put my experience into words. When I try to articulate what I’ve seen and done while teaching abroad, it never quite matches the beauty of the adventure I’m on. No matter what, I always seem to come up short. [...]
Cork, Ireland by @katebritabroad
