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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Booked & Boarded: New York City — Brownstones, Bridges, and a Tree That Won’t Stop Growing
The Promenade is busy before nine, joggers and dog walkers and one man doing tai chi facing the harbor, unbothered by the container ships crossing behind him. Brooklyn Heights does this specific thing where the brownstones stand shoulder to shoulder…
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Cities That Make You Feel Like You’re Living in a Novel
Most cities you visit. A few, you seem to fall into, the way you fall into a book you didn’t mean to start reading past midnight. The architecture starts doing narrative work. The light behaves like foreshadowing. You catch yourself…
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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…
