Category: Literary Travel

We looked at each other at exactly the same time and said it almost simultaneously. I could live here. That’s what Coimbra does to a person like me, a …

There’s a Waco landmark that I’ve been wanting to visit for years. No, it’s not Magnolia Market at the Silos from the interior design TV show Fixer-Upper (although I …

It also ended. Three weeks after my family and I watched the earth being born, my mother-in-law sent me the news article from Hawaii News Now: “Kamokuna ocean cliff …

Books have the ability to transport us into different worlds, from fantasy to fiction set in other countries and eras. After being inspired by Anne Morgan’s “A Year of …

Do you remember Make Way for Ducklings? Robert McCloskey told the tale of a duck family with eight small ducklings who make their way (with the help of a …

Once upon a time we listened to stories avidly, and wouldn’t go to bed until we’d heard one. Then we grow up and start reading them for ourselves, and …

From the brasseries and bistros that inspired Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast to the practice rooms in the Palais Garnier immortalised by Degas’s pastel coloured ballerinas, there is no city …

Cover image by Krista. My heels click down the abandoned Calle Echegaray, only a few blocks from Madrid’s chaotic Puerta del Sol. Houses line the narrow street with flaking …

Featured image by Óscar Palop. A westerly wind rang through the intertwined tree branches and flickering torches scattered around the castle warmed the damp air, leaving an after-scent of petroleum …

The DH Lawrence Ranch Re-Opens for Visitors ‘This was the spiritual place he found, that he had always been searching for,’ Robert Cafazzo tells me as we huddle against …

It’s not just award season for music and movies. This is also the time of year when several “best travel writing” awards results come out. Perceptive Travel often gets …

“Next to that island over there is where the Greeks fought the Persians in a great battle, during the Peloponnesian War,” said Cristos as we drove toward our first …