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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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…
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5 Days in Ubud: A Literary Guide Through Temples, Bookshops and the Town That Rebuilt Itself With Words
Ubud has a goddess for this. Saraswati, patron of knowledge, art and the written word, has her own water temple here, right in the centre of town, and it isn’t a coincidence that a place this devoted to art ended…
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Booked & Boarded: Ubud — Rice, Rain, and a History Nobody Puts on the Postcards
Roosters start before the light does, somewhere close enough to my window that I stop pretending I might sleep through it. I give up and go out early instead, Tales of a Female Nomad still on the nightstand where I…
