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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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…
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3 Days in Edinburgh: A Literary Guide Through History, Bookshops and Quiet Corners
Edinburgh doesn’t need much dressing up. It was the first city named a UNESCO City of Literature, and it wears that history without trying in the closes that haven’t changed their names in three hundred years and the gravestones that…
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Booked & Boarded: Edinburgh — Closes, Wynds, and Borrowed Time
The rain arrives before I do, or it feels that way; the pavement already dark with it, the castle up on its rock half-swallowed by mist, more suggestion than stone. I came up from Waverley into a wind that seemed…
