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Traveling While Reading

The Hundred Years War: Sarajevo – June 28, 1914

For Molly and I, what started as a trip to southern France, has transformed into one giant history lesson about Europe’s darkest 32 years. Everywhere on this continent there is death, loss, violence and destruction.

June 28, 2014 in Austria, Balkan History and Culture, Bassac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, French Food and Culture, Germany, Montenegro, Paris, Serbia, The Balkans, Traveling While Reading.

Traveling While Reading: The Balkans

Reading has continued to dominate our trip and during our time in Montenegro and the Balkans we managed to consume quite a variety of books, from Balkan histories and travelogues to various novels picked up at Belgrade’s English bookstores.

June 18, 2014 in The Balkans, Traveling While Reading.

Bulgaria Is For Lovers (of historical spy novels)

Right there on the river, the very first thing we saw getting out of our car is a large memorial to the “Victims of Communism.”

May 19, 2014 in Balkan History and Culture, Bulgaria, Traveling While Reading.

Rebecca West: The Evil Empires

In 1915, Great Britain made a treaty with Italy that was quite simple: if Italy declared war on the Austrian Empire, they’d get to rule over all of Croatia once the war was over.

April 4, 2014 in Balkan History and Culture, Traveling While Reading.

Rebecca West: The New Woman in My Life

But I am in no way different from her in that sense and there is always something exploitative and selfish in traveling. Like any traveler in a foreign land, she is using the place and its people to advance her own self, to improve and advance her own life, just as I am.

March 23, 2014 in Balkan History and Culture, Traveling While Reading.

Traveling While Reading

No place can be understood from a single visit nor through a single book, but combining the two opens up the past in a way history alone often can’t.

March 14, 2014 in Balkan History and Culture, France, Italy, Top 8 & Other Lists, Traveling While Reading.

French History: Language

With Barb gone and Molly tired of my rants on French language purism, I thought I’d share with you a brief history of the French language and some of what we’ve learned from The Story of French.

February 21, 2014 in French Food and Culture, Traveling While Reading.

French Consumption

The other day I asked Adam what his strongest French influences had been prior to our European travel plans and the onslaught of new stories set in France – and this is what he listed:

December 17, 2013 in French Food and Culture, Top 8 & Other Lists, Traveling While Reading.

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