Welcome to Literary Travels — an ode to the art of armchair exploration. Here, books become passports, carrying us across continents and centuries to lands we may never step foot in, yet come to know by heart. Through the pages, we wander bustling souks and misty moors, ancient cities and distant shores — discovering the world as much as ourselves. It’s an exquisite pleasure: to travel without leaving your reading chair, to let stories expand your imagination, and to learn from voices, people, and civilizations that quietly enrich your inner life.
There are many countries I am fascinated by and that I’ve never visited. But in autumn, the greatest temptation is Scotland. As I am sitting at my desk, planning this video, I find it quite difficult to explain my virtual…
One of my favourite genres in litterature is historical fiction. So when I pick up a Tracy Chevalier novel, I am over the moon. I came across her long before The Girl with a pearl earing movie histeria, and as…
If you want the moon, do not hide from the night.If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns.If you want love, do not run from yourself. Rumi There’s a specific kind of restlessness that settles in when…
The land of the Rising Sun… So many pictures come to mind while saying that. It very often feels like I could never fully understand a civilisation so different than mine. But every once in a while, a book comes…
Chinese stories… we each have our own, and I’m guessing it’s mostly a remix of clichés we picked up along the way. But every once in a while, we cross paths with a book or a movie that makes us…
If someone could guarantee my safe passage through the Amazon jungle, I would go in a heartbeat. But since that’s rather unlikely, Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder has become the closest I’ve gotten to that extraordinary, frightening, life-altering experience. This…
Today we are setting sail for the hypnotic Ibis Trilogy of Amitav Ghosh, with Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. We begin in Calcutta – India , in the first half of the 19th century, as…
