Literary travel, bookstores, trains, notebooks, and the stories cities leave behind
Booked & Boarded
A recurring literary travel series about books, transit, cafés, bookstores, and the quiet observations collected along the way. Part city diary, part reading journal, Booked & Boarded explores what it feels like to move slowly through a place.
Literary Guides
Thoughtful literary travel guides exploring through bookstores, cafés, neighbourhood walks, hidden corners, and slow itineraries for readers, writers, and curious travellers.
Literary Travel
A collection of essays, reflections, and destination stories exploring the spaces where books and travel intersect. From hidden bookstores and literary cities to notebooks filled on trains and afternoons spent reading in unfamiliar cafés, these pieces focus on the emotional texture of place rather than sightseeing alone.
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5 Days in Rome: A Literary Guide Through Ruins, Bookshops and Quiet Corners
Rome doesn’t wear its history in one layer. It wears it in several, stacked on top of each other like sediment. Walk into certain churches here and you’re standing on top of a building that’s standing on top of another…
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Booked & Boarded: Rome — Ruins, Ristretto, and a City Writing Its Own History
Heat meets me at the top of the steps before anything else does — thick, resinous, smelling faintly of stone that’s been baking since morning. Termini ejects me into a square full of people who all seem to know exactly…
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The Best European Cities for Book Lovers
Some cities you visit for the food. Some for the weather, though rarely in Europe. And some, if you’re the kind of traveller who packs a paperback before a phone charger, you visit because the city itself seems to have…
