Travel ideas from around the world inspired by films and books. Literary travel ideas and movie travel ideas.
I do love a good island holiday and the Isle of Wight off the south coast of Britain is an easy voyage. There are many Isle of Wight attractions but here I have chosen my top 10 things to do on the Isle of Wight. Basking off the sunny English south […]
The Comics Art Museum in Brussels is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and – given the number of times I have visited Brussels – it was starting to get a bit embarrassing that I had never been! All that changed last month when at last I slipped through the doors […]
I have written before on the top day trips you must make from Lisbon, once you have exhausted the many delights of the Portuguese capital. But after my recent return visit I wanted to write some more about experiencing Lisbon itself. Now that it has had more opportunity to sink into my […]
The coast of Normandy is a funny sort of place, one of those places that manages to combine being a receptacle of the world’s memory with beautiful scenery and family beach holiday fun. On D-Day (June 6th 1944) this was the venue for history’s greatest amphibious assault and an invasion that […]
Or, how to pretend you live in Paris On previous visits to Paris I have rushed around seeing the sights, walked miles and spent hours in queues. I’ve loved Paris yet come away thinking I have seen many undoubtedly un-missable attractions but somehow missed out on seeing Paris itself. Many […]
The train is crowded with Indian holidaymakers, travelling to enjoy the cool air of Simla, the mountain retreat in the Himalayan foot hills of India’s Himchal Pradesh province. This is the Himalayan Queen, one of India’s five famous ‘toy trains’ (I’ve only done two so far) and one of the […]
A recommended pitstop on the interminable Hume Highway is the township of Glenrowan. We stopped for lunch and stayed for a look around the Ned Kelly museums between Melbourne and Victoria’s high country on the Great Alpine Road. Glenrowan is famous mostly for being the location of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly’s ‘Last […]
Approaching Bukhara by train through the dry countryside the landscape is lumpy earth and sand with scrubby sage-green vegetation. After the green mountains of Kyrgyzstan the deserts of Uzbekistan seemed hard to bear. But the Oases, oh the oases! I was amazed to suddenly see roses and great clumps of pink […]
If you’re not Australian you may not have heard of Norman Lindsay but you may have seen the 1994 film Sirens with Sam Neill, Portia di Rossi and Elle Macpherson? As Mr Wandering Kiwi said: “Oh yeah the film with the naked women.” Does that jog your memory? For people […]