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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Reading in Cities That Don’t Slow Down
This isn’t a groundbreaking statement, if you’ve found your way here then you’re very likely the same as me. But there is almost always a book in my bag when I travel. Not because I expect to spend entire afternoons…
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3 Days in Hong Kong for Readers
Hong Kong feels like a city experienced in fragments. Trams rattling beneath apartment towers in Central. Fluorescent light spilling from second-floor cafés. Escalators carrying commuters uphill while rain gathers on concrete staircases below. Tiny bookstores hidden inside office buildings where…
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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…
Notes from trains, bookstores, and quiet mornings abroad
