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 Most Beautiful Bookshops I’ve Visited While Travelling
Some bookshops are just places to buy a book. These aren’t those. Every one on this list is a destination in its own right — the kind of place you’d plan a stop around, not stumble into on the way…
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5 Days in Paris: The Perfect First-Time Itinerary
Paris rewards travellers who move slowly through it. Readers already know this. This itinerary isn’t built around ticking off monuments; it’s built around bookshops worth getting lost in, galleries worth lingering in, and cafés worth sitting still in for longer…
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Booked & Boarded: Paris – Rainy Walks & Literary Corners
The Métro spits me out into daylight that feels thinner than underground air. At Saint-Germain, the streets are already moving in layers — a café chair scrapes against stone, a delivery bike threads through a gap in the footpath that…
