When Vivian Swift published this second book modeled much after the first, I knew without looking that I wanted a copy. She recounts her roadtrip to France that she takes with her new husband. What they see, where they go and those little travel adventures you have when visiting a foreign country.
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France is much like Wanderers in that it is a beautiful book with quirky observations, lovely sketches of all the author does and sees, a breakdown of the phases of a trip from beginning to the inevitable bad travel days to the parting. This journal is full of reminiscences of past trips, quotes, and the little details that many over look: a mermaid door, the color of the sunset, a cat at a rooming house, a particular cheese and wine at a cafe.
Ms Swift is taking a post wedding trip with her new husband, a man who is clearly her kindred spirit, so this book in a way is something of a love story--or perhaps a love tribute. Because of the eclectic, poetic nature of the book, I am a little unclear as to how long the trip was and some of the day to day itinerary was a tad jumbled. But it really did not matter. The whole journal was a tribute to adventurers and travelers every where. It made me a lot nostalgic for the road and anxious to try my hand at my high school french in Paris. Everything is better with croissant.
Fun fact: did you know that France is the number one tourist destination by far?
This is another lovely book worth owning. Buy it if you can.
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France is much like Wanderers in that it is a beautiful book with quirky observations, lovely sketches of all the author does and sees, a breakdown of the phases of a trip from beginning to the inevitable bad travel days to the parting. This journal is full of reminiscences of past trips, quotes, and the little details that many over look: a mermaid door, the color of the sunset, a cat at a rooming house, a particular cheese and wine at a cafe.
Ms Swift is taking a post wedding trip with her new husband, a man who is clearly her kindred spirit, so this book in a way is something of a love story--or perhaps a love tribute. Because of the eclectic, poetic nature of the book, I am a little unclear as to how long the trip was and some of the day to day itinerary was a tad jumbled. But it really did not matter. The whole journal was a tribute to adventurers and travelers every where. It made me a lot nostalgic for the road and anxious to try my hand at my high school french in Paris. Everything is better with croissant.
Fun fact: did you know that France is the number one tourist destination by far?
This is another lovely book worth owning. Buy it if you can.
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