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Are you a book lover who loves the earth? Why not take a green literary vacation?
Green Travel Benefits Finding enjoyment with a vacation that offers extra benefits is the best part of Eco-Friendly travel. You’re probably a green traveler if you want more meaningful, challenging, and adventurous experiences in your travels with sensitivity and responsibility for the environment and the local cultures. I consider myself Eco-Friendly since I like to…
Read MoreEight old London literary places to inspire writers to become great authors
Authors find their inspiration from their surroundings. If you love great works of fiction or want to understand the practices at a new level, you’d like to take a London literary tour. From Chaucer to Dickens, Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, London has inspired (and home to) some English language’s most celebrated writers. You can venture…
Read MoreYou’ll fall in love with the great steam railway trip to Bronte country’s literary adventure
Like great creative people such as Leonardo da Vinci and Frank Lloyd Wright whose nature studies inspired their works of art, Charlotte Bronte too used nature to enrich her writings. Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature’s imagery throughout “Jane Eyre,” and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. The Oxford…
Read MoreFind how to have great air travel this summer
“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot You have lots of steps to take with air travel from planning your dream trip to buying your airplane ticket. I hope this following video of five tips will give you happy air travels that will be the beginning of your best summer vacation…
Read MoreHow to be a Beach Lover and a Spy fan. Visit Jamaica and Read James Bond
Lovers of sand, sea, and adventure, you will have a treat by reading Ian Fleming’s novels on Jamaica beach vacations. Dig into James Bond and discover spy thrillers that merged from the Jamaican sands. As Matthew Parker, the author of “Goldeneye – Where Bond was Born” documents the influence of the island on the now famous fictional…
Read MoreYes, Robert Louis Stevenson can awaken your childhood wonder.
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson Do you remember reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? His stories still live on the page, in the movies, on Broadway, and in our heart. Stevenson, a…
Read MoreWhy nature adventurers should add a trip from Paris to Jules Verne’s home to their bucket list.
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert; where a man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” Jules Verne Jules Verne enjoyed living in Amiens. He called it a “levelheaded, polite, even-tempered town” with a “cordial…
Read MoreWhy self-discovery saves your life.
Wise men knew that the first thing we need to do to live a good and happy life is to find ourselves. Mastering others is a strength; Mastering yourself is true power.” -Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher. “Know thyself.” The meaning of these two words is attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates and inscribed in…
Read MoreWHY YOU NEED AN ADVENTURE VACATION
How often have you come back from your vacation exhausted, only to be waking up early the next morning to go back to work? Do you ever feel like it would be great to have a few days to relax and unpack before getting back to the grind? Or better yet, would you like to…
Read MoreFive Reasons to Visit the Land of Shangri La
Find out if there was a reason that James Hilton, the British author of 1933 novel Lost Horizon chose the Himalayas as the location for the place called Shangri-La as the mythical utopia. In his novel, Shangri-La was an earthly paradise, a permanently happy land where people stayed young for a hundred years. Do you…
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