Books I love as I travel
We are in early October and the weather is still warm. Warm enough to get down the stairs of the Mont Saint-Martin without a coat and discover Liège coiled in Continue Reading →
It was by chance that I stumbled on the Museum of Innocence. Not the book. The Museum. After visiting Dolmabahce Palace, I walked along the Bosphorus and decided, without Continue Reading →
The last pages in « Crimes of August » describe a calm and normal day in Rio. « The one thousand and seven hundred tourists who had disembarked from the ship Santa Maria visited Continue Reading →
For Rome, the first book that comes to mind is « Memoirs of Hadrian » by the French author, Marguerite Yourcenar. I actually read the book while in Rome, for Continue Reading →
I got a request from my sister-in-law as she was preparing her trip to the US. I responded on the blog’s Facebook page. Assuming Americans could be interested by what Continue Reading →
When I launched this blog, I received a request for book recommendations for a forthcoming trip to the States (Washington, DC and New York). I enjoyed responding, first on the Continue Reading →
“We could try an Italian. That would be exotic!” My Monash University colleagues’ suggestion for dinner reminded me that everything was upside down in « Down Under ». I had left Europe Continue Reading →
Hello, The idea behind this blog is simple: I travel a lot, sometimes for work, sometimes on holidays and I enjoy reading very much. For a few years, I have been reading books Continue Reading →