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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I love that! Any particular type of book/aspect of history? I.e. is it always 19th century? An obscure event or time period?

My habit has been to visit a museum of the minority/oppressed, which is often the Jewish museum in most European cities. They always tell a different aspect of a place's history