Literary Tourism Archives • Page 2 of 2 • Melissa Baron

Copenhagen

Posted on July 14, 2019June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

Ahh, Copenhagen. The Nordic city of bicycles, palaces, and fairy tales. As someone who likes to indulge in literary tourist trips from time to time, I was excited to see what literary secrets Denmark’s capital holds for book lovers, and I was not disappointed. In addition to some of the more well known places to […]

London

Posted on July 9, 2018June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

This April, I embarked on a 9-day vacation to London, Bath, and Paris. It was my first time abroad and my first time abroad by myself. I wanted it to be the nerdiest, most bookish vacation I’ve ever been on. There are a thousand ways to go about a literary tour in major and minor cities all over the world, and we’ve […]

Walden Pond & Orchard House

Posted on December 29, 2017June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. — Henry David Thoreau On our second day in Concord, we managed to wake up early despite attending a wedding the night before. We made time to see Old […]

Old Manse

Posted on December 10, 2017June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson We arrived in Concord close to midnight on a cool December night. Cool and damp; nowhere near the New England cold we expected for the first week of the last month of the year. And so the fog rolled in, thick and opaque, […]

Hannibal

Posted on May 23, 2017June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness… — Mark Twain It was hot enough to render my car’s air conditioning near useless as I drove west on the sun-baked and faded state road of Illinois Route 72. Hotter than a frog on a hot plate, my grandpa would say. And all the blasted cold air […]