Literary City Guides
City guides for book lovers, with the bookshops, cafés, literary walks and quiet corners I would send a dear friend to on her first visit.
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Christmas lights at Bellingrath, a MoonPie drop on New Year's Eve and the start of Carnival: how to spend December and January in Mobile, Alabama.
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My dream list of European Christmas markets, from Vienna and Strasbourg to Edinburgh and Bath, plus practical tips for visiting without the stress.
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Twelve grapes in Spain, soup joumou in Haiti, black-eyed peas in the South and more. Here are the New Year's traditions around the world I love most.
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From Jamaica's Grand Market to Ethiopia's Genna and Iceland's book flood, here are the Christmas traditions around the world I'd love to borrow this year.
Reading Life · Bookshops & Libraries
My first day in Bath was a cruise stop with one goal: every bookshop in the city. Here's how to do bookish Bath in a day, plus the Jane Austen Centre.
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The best bookshops in Edinburgh, a free poetry library and one big hill: how to spend 48 literary hours in the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature.
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A literary walk through Lisbon with Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, Saramago’s rainy 1936 Lisbon and Night Train to Lisbon, and what I found on the page.
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Where to write alone in Paris: the Luxembourg Garden chairs, cafés at the off hours, the Musée de la Vie Romantique garden and the quays of the Seine.
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How to see Rome without the crowds: coffee at the counter, empty piazzas, Campo de’ Fiori opening up and Trastevere at sunrise. An early riser’s guide.
Reading Life · Bookshops & Libraries
A bookish Lisbon guide: Livraria Bertrand (the world’s oldest bookshop), Ler Devagar at LX Factory, Alfama’s little shops and the best views to read by.
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A coin-flip day in Rome: heads left, tails right, no famous sights. Where the coin took me and how to try a spontaneous travel day in any city.