Books

Whenever I am going on vacation to a place I try to read a few books about its history first. It gets me psychologically situated for what I’m going to experience and I also find that people appreciate it and are even touched to find that you know a bit about their history.

Reading deepens your enjoyment of life. I don’t know if I’d enjoy travel so much if I wasn’t aware of all the layers of history beneath a place that I was visiting. I’m planning to travel through a few countries in southern Europe later this year and am reading books in anticipation.

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Which countries / what time period are you interested in?

Southern Spain, France and then Sicily. In Spain I’m interested in the Andalusian convivencia period, France as always obsessed with French Revolution (how was it experienced so far from the metropole?), and in Italy likewise with the period of the consolidation of Italian states into the modern nation.