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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3 Days in Lisbon: A Literary Guide Through Cafés, Bookshops and the City Pessoa Never Left
Lisbon is a city built on hills, which means it’s also a city built on views: you round a corner and the Tagus opens up beneath you, tiled rooftops stacked all the way down to the water. It’s the kind…
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Booked & Boarded: Lisbon — Azulejos, Ascensores, and a Room That Isn’t Home Yet
The tram groans uphill before I’ve even decided which way I’m walking, yellow and narrow and packed tighter than seems legal, someone’s shopping bag pressed against my hip the whole climb. I let it go without me at the top…
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Best Books to Read on a Beach Holiday
Every year, someone hands me a list titled something like “Ten Perfect Beach Reads,” and without fail, none of them are books I’d actually want within reach of my towel. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a breezy thriller…
