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 […]
Category Archives: Novels and Travel Books
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 […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art for Books about Myanmar
Among my selection of books to read while I was in Myanmar were two famous novels that both featured the crush of boats at U Bein bridge in Mandalay on […]
