For quite some time, I purposefully – and quite successfully I may add – avoided reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia. Before even picking it up, I stereotyped the book as a “chick flick” on paper. And to an extent I was right. It is, […]
Tag Archives: Europe
The Kingdom by the Sea
A couple of years ago I swore off reading any book by Paul Theroux ever again. Ever. True, he could write like nobody’s business, but his arrogance drove me mad. He never literally spelled it out, but I always got the impression in his other books I’ve read that his adventures were the only way […]
Notes From a Small Island
I have read too many serious travel books lately – heck, too many serious books in general if you want to throw in the likes of East of Eden and Les Miserables – and needed a break with something fun. Cue one of the world’s best authors in Bill Bryson. Notes From a Small Island […]
A Course Called Ireland
I had plenty of time to read with a week off for a holiday break. I definitely kept busy running around doing various family things, but was able to easily find time to read around the madness that encompassed my time off. One of the books I read, A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk […]
Neither Here Nor There
I have been unable to find a Bill Bryson book that I don’t love. From page one to the end of each of his books I find myself absolutely rivited, and thoroughly entertained. It’s as though I have an old friend telling me about his travels abroad. And so, when I picked up Neither Here […]
The Hunchback at Notre Dame
About 15 months ago my father and I made a trip to Paris followed by a roadtrip to Normandy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. It was an amazing holiday and one I won’t soon forget. It was a great time spent with my father doing something we both love: traveling. One of the highlights of the […]
Jason's Travels 