Destination: Venice Movie: Don’t Look Now (1973) I think it is appropriate to segue from two weeks of scary things to a week of Venice by talking about a scary Venice movie. Don’t you? Pin it
Scary Reads? Not all of the mystery novels I have reviewed are about a place as creepy as Cora Harrison’s Burren of Ireland (♥)or Martin Cruz Smith’s Wolves Eat Dogs (♥♥♥♥). I’m wrapping up the two weeks of scary things and mystery novels with a list of some of the reader-preferred mysteries, with hearts to denote how fast they’ll [...]
I was invited to tour The Nest, at Rawhide in Chandler, Arizona before it opened to the public this month. In one section, you walk through a graveyard and are confronted with zombies who may be real and may be animatronics. I’m not staying around long enough to find out! This photo is part of [...]
Destination: Russia Book: Wolves Eat Dogs, an Arkady Renko Novel by Martin Cruz Smith (2004) Here is a fitting horror story for Halloween in the 21st century. Death by radiation poisoning. Life in a dead zone. When we were fortunate enough to meet Martin Cruz Smith last March, and accompany him around Tucson during the [...]
Destination: Sweden TV Series: Wallander with Kenneth Branagh ( BBC and PBS) Guest Post by Melanie McMinn Melanie McMinn, an American ex-pat writer and artist living in New Zealand, actually takes time off from raising bees, creating creatures of felted wool, cooking, remodeling, and making all sorts of other things including a blog called [...]
I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans. Pin it
Although the Salzburg Marionette Theater is anything but scary, you’ll have to admit that the witch from Hansel and Gretel is a little scary. I recently learned, however, that the way to keep witches away is to put a pile of corn near you doorway. When a witch flies over corn, she is obliged to [...]
Destination: Ireland Book: My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland by Cora Harrison (2007) The Burren of Ireland fascinated me when we traveled through County Clare. Long, flat tables of gray stone stretch toward the sea. Cracks and ridges and deep fissures make walking across the limestone ground an adventure. Lovely little wild flowers [...]
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Two weeks ago, you met five new contributors to A Traveler’s Library. Today you meet a SIXTH. Brette Sember will be joining us each month for a feature called Tasty Travel. Do you plan your trips around food? Do you find yourself talking about the food on the trip when you get home? Do you like [...]
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