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 City Guides
Thoughtful literary travel guides exploring cities through bookstores, cafés, neighbourhood walks, hidden corners, and slow itineraries for readers, writers, and curious travellers.
Bookstores Around the World
Independent bookstores, beautiful libraries, quiet reading cafés, and literary spaces around the world for travellers who always leave room in their suitcase for one more book.
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Booked & Boarded: Hong Kong – Reading Between Neon Lights and Ferry Crossings
There are some cities that stay suspended in memory long after the details disappear. I haven’t been back to Hong Kong since 2005, but certain fragments remain strangely intact: the feeling of humidity pressing against glass windows, fluorescent light reflecting…
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Why I Always Visit Bookshops When I Travel
In almost every city I visit, I end up in a bookshop before I properly know where anything else is. Before museums. Before landmarks. Sometimes before I’ve even unpacked my bag. There’s usually a moment, somewhere between arriving and belonging,…
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A Slower First Visit to Bangkok
Bangkok hits you fast. The heat wraps around you the second you step outside the airport. Tuk-tuks dart through impossible traffic, the smell of sizzling garlic and chilli drifts from roadside food carts, and somewhere between the golden temples, rooftop…
Notes from trains, bookstores, and quiet mornings abroad
