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 City Guides
Thoughtful literary travel guides exploring cities through bookstores, cafés, neighbourhood walks, hidden corners, and slow itineraries for readers, writers, and curious travellers.
Bookstores Around the World
Independent bookstores, beautiful libraries, quiet reading cafés, and literary spaces around the world for travellers who always leave room in their suitcase for one more book.
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Why I Always Visit Bookshops When I Travel
In almost every city I visit, I end up in a bookshop before I properly know where anything else is. Before museums. Before landmarks. Sometimes before I’ve even unpacked my bag. There’s usually a moment, somewhere between arriving and belonging,…
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A Slower First Visit to Bangkok
Bangkok hits you fast. The heat wraps around you the second you step outside the airport. Tuk-tuks dart through impossible traffic, the smell of sizzling garlic and chilli drifts from roadside food carts, and somewhere between the golden temples, rooftop…
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Booked & Boarded: Bangkok — Temples, Street Food and Late-Night Pages
Bangkok doesn’t really ease you in. It arrives all at once. Heat rising off concrete. The smell of garlic and smoke caught between traffic lights. Motorbikes weaving through lanes with entire families balanced on the back. Tuk-tuks cutting through the…
Notes from trains, bookstores, and quiet mornings abroad
