Books I love as I travel
My economics history professor was telling us about settlers “in the Chesapeake Bay”. I had just arrived from Europe, was studying in Chicago and had no idea what place he Continue Reading →
Almost thirty-seven years between the two trips. In the summer of 1988, we were traveling in a recreational vehicle with my two brothers and my parents, who were showing us Continue Reading →
In this blog I have often talked about film adaptations of novels I’ve read. Most of the time, but not always, I read the book first before seeing the film. Continue Reading →
One of the reasons I write this blog is that I like to read novels that describe the place I’m traveling to. For my recent stay in Montevideo, I chose Continue Reading →
The taste for poetry runs deep in Nicaragua, a country where the harshness of volcanoes is softened by the water of lakes. On our recent trip to León, we visited Continue Reading →
We set off from our hotel on Philipps Square towards McGill University. After an initial exploration of the campus, we climbed the stairs to the viewpoint in front of the Continue Reading →
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. So Continue Reading →
I’ve already spent three full days in Panama, without ever sleeping there. Not that I partied all night. Rather, I enjoyed three long layovers when I flew with the national Continue Reading →
This blog started from the idea of describing, by mixing them, my travel and reading experiences since I take a lot of pleasure in reading books, mostly novels, that take Continue Reading →
I remember well the first time I heard Mario Vargas Llosa speak. It was the literary program “Apostrophes” hosted by Bernard Pivot and I was probably watching it with my Continue Reading →