Category Archive: Armchair Travel

Journeys of a Lifetime

This one is for Claire who asked for a book about hiking.   I realize that Journeys of a Lifetime is probably not what she had in mind,  but wait until you hear about… Read More

Spectacular Hotels

   If you are in the habit of clicking on my eye candy selections and getting them from the library to gawk at,  be assured that Trisha Wilson’s Spectacular Hotels will not disappoint… Read More

Modern Cabin New Style

After ‘ooohing and ahhing’  over the spectacular log mansions, I came across two more very eye-catching books,  that focus on very modern and high tech versions of the vacation cabin.   The Texas hill… Read More

Adventures of an Italian Food Lover

I really wanted to like Faith Willinger’s Adventures of an Italian food lover.   Recipes from 254 chefs all over "The Boot"  collected by a woman in Florence, Italy famous for writing about the… Read More

Earth Then and Now

Earth Then and Now is a unique pictorial geography book showing dramatic changes to the earth’s surface all over the world. Consisting mostly of before and after photographs and some other before and… Read More

A Rough Guide To The World

My first thought on seeing this latest Rough Guides publication was that it was proof positive the brand is so diluted that the Rough Guides imprint and logo means nothing at all, where… Read More

Armchair Travel: Scotland

There was a time after I got laid off from Earthlink and before Joel got too sick to travel that we went on a kind of non-stop vacation. My current budget doesn’t permit… Read More

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