Travel For Adventurous Women
Curious Travel Belles love reading before, during and after their travels – not just for information, but for inspiration.
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.
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.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
A special bookshop in London that every literary loving Travel Belle will want to visit.
A woman who lived under the Tuscan sun in the early 1900s The villa and beautiful gardens at La Foce in Tuscany. An Italian nobleman … Read more
Bookstores, Italian Food & Italy Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ I would add to that, “as … Read more
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 This … Read more
Book Review: Machu My Picchu, Searching for Sex, Sanity, and a Soul Mate in South America by Iris Bahr [easyazon_image align=”left” height=”160″ identifier=”0762772778″ locale=”US” src=”https://www.travelbelles.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/41Ex5mumTPL.SL160.jpg” tag=”tbelles-20″ … Read more
