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News at the Traveler's Library

  • Keep your eyes open and you will see some changes at the Traveler’s Library in the next few weeks, as I complete
    Book Shelves
    Book Shelves

    the 31-day Blogging Challenge sponsored by the guru of blogging, Darren Rowse. There simply is no better source of information for bloggers on the web than Darren Rowse’s blog.

  • One change that has nothing to do with the Blogging Challenge appeared a few days ago at the top of the right-hand column. Click on it and it will take you to a site called Bloggers Unite, and the description of an effort by bloggers to help Heifer International, those great folks that help people around the globe find the means to feed themselves.  Be sure to cruise on over to the Traveler’s Library on Wednesday, April 29, I will present an interview with the head of Heifer’s Travel program and pass on her travel book recommendations for some of the Heifer Travel destinations. Check Heifer’s Web Site and see if you can join the fun during April events.
  • Just a reminder that this coming week is (allegedly) William Shakespeare’s birthday. It is on the 23rd–or maybe the 22nd–or maybe he wasn’t even a playwright so we should forget the whole thing.  Stay tuned. We’ll be talking about Shakespeare.
  • Busy week , because we also have Earth Day on April 22. But you already have your reading assignments for Earth Day travels to the Southwestern United States. Continue reading News at the Traveler's Library

Six Tips for Valentine’s Day

A couple at Dingle Harbor, Ireland
A couple at Dingle Harbor, Ireland

Easy to find both travel romance and book romance around the web this time of year. Maybe it has something to do with Valentine’s Day??

Best romance novel of the year has a travel theme, too.  ABE books describes Julia Gregson’s book, East of the Sun, as the adventure of three women traveling in India each seeking her own kind of romance. Definitely going on my library shelf.

Nora Roberts Romance Theme Hotel She writes about romance, can she make it happen in the hotel, too?

Be the star of your own Romance Novel This is my favorite.  I don’t generally read romance novels, but if I get to pick the location AND be the heroine….. Everyone knows these tips lists should be TEN, and I have a measly six–so I’m counting on you, dear readers, to add four more.  [HAD a measly six until a couple disappeared from the Internet. Sorry ’bout that.]

Love and Travel and Books

In February, 2009, I wrote: Valentine’s Day is coming up. It is unavoidable. I might as well write about it in terms of books and travel.

Romantic Bookmark
Romantic Bookmark

Here are my random choices of romantic things.

Most romantic couple:  Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

Most romantic city:  Florence (And the Brownings just happened to live there!

Most romantic line of poetry:   I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach….

Most romantic book about travel I have read: Eat, Love, Pray

Most romantic restaurant I have eaten in: Rainforest Hideaway,  Marigot Bay, St. Lucia

Most romantic hotel I ever stayed in: Princess Village, Koh Samui Thailand (Unfortunately now gone upscale as the Le Paradis Boutique Resort and Spa. Ahh, you not only can’t go home again, you can’t go Koh Samui again.)

Here’s a little gift for your Valentine:

How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Photograph by “goranpg” from Flickr, Creative Commons license