travel Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/travel/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:26:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg travel Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/travel/ 32 32 38398750 It’s Not About Books: Italy https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/its-not-about-books-italy/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/its-not-about-books-italy/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:01:17 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6816 It began with sunshine and smiles as my family found each other in the small confines of the airport in Florence and ended with shouts and threats seven days later in the same airport in the dark of 5am—when our flight to Frankfurt was cancelled. The shouting and shoving did not come from me because […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/its-not-about-books-italy/feed/ 12 6816 Arrivederci for Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/arrivederci-for-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/arrivederci-for-now/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:30:22 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6781 Happy Friday, readers! No review today because by noon I will be aboard a plane heading to Italy. Yes, the long awaited family vacation has arrived! For the next seven days I’ll be traipsing around Florence, Cortona, and Siena. Probably even seeing gorgeous landscapes like the one above. What a lucky lady I am. Due […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/07/arrivederci-for-now/feed/ 15 6781 The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-divers-clothes-lie-empty/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-divers-clothes-lie-empty/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:16:01 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4207 Plenty of people go on vacation to lose themselves but probably not in the way of the narrator in Vendela Vida’s novel The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She lands in Morocco and midway through the check-in process at her hotel realizes her backpack has been stolen, almost out of her hands. It contains every piece […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/07/the-divers-clothes-lie-empty/feed/ 4 4207 Heads in Beds https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/heads-in-beds/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/heads-in-beds/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:42:17 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1043 Jacob Tomsky graduated from college with a degree in philosophy and no idea what he wanted to do. It is summer in New Orleans and before jumping a career and all that entails he decides to take a job at a new hotel as a valet—to test the working waters. With his personable nature and […]

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