Travel Guides and Other Books to Ponder on the Road
One thing I always take with me on every longer trip is a guidebook. Even with the web around, I still can’t imagine travelling without one. Each brand of guidebook […]
Category Archives: Novels and Travel Books
To Read on the Road: Novels Set in Ireland
On the plane to Ireland I had to admit I didn’t much like James Joyce to my Irish seat-mate. She exclaimed, “Oh my dear, no one ever actually reads Joyce, they […]
11 Dead in Oaxaca (Mexico)
Guadalajara, 2006. There’s a protest in the Zocalo. ‘LA PAX DE FOX’ reads one sign, the dove’s wings degrading into knives and bayonets, dripping blood. PAX is ‘peace‘, FOX is […]
to Read on the Road: Novels Set in Vietnam
I’m not fond of war so none of the books I chose to read in Vietnam were about the Vietnamese War except as a backdrop. Instead the books focussed on […]
To Read on the Road: Myanmar
I always try to find a good selection of books to take with me when I travel and here are a few books I read while travelling through Myanmar, and […]
To Read in Holland: The Tulip Craze (and the First Financial Bubble)
1637 was date of the collapse of the world’s first speculative bubble, all created by a passion for tulips. In Holland people mortgaged their houses to buy and sell tulip bulbs for ever-increasing […]
to Read on the Road: Holland
Quite by accident, the three novels I chose to take with me to Holland were all set back in the 1600s, the country’s Golden Age. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art Featuring Don Quixote
Whenever I travel somewhere I search out novels that are set in that particular country. My choice for Spain was Don Quixote, primarily because our friend Eddy had been reading the book […]
Cover Art for Books to Read in Myanmar
Among my selection of books to read while I was in Myanmar were two famous novels, both featuring the crush of boats at U Bein Bridge in Mandalay on their […]
