Trips inspired by books

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I know a ton of people that made trips to India after eat pray love. I personally visited Rodanthe after reading the Nicholas Sparks book.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been wanting to go to Ischia after reading the Elena Ferrante series.

This would be fascinating.

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Went to PEI (Anne with an E!) and would love to visit New Zealand for Lord of the Rings.

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Not exactly a book but I planned a Paris trip based on Ina Garten and her cookbooks/show/suggestions, lol.

It was fabulous!

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Breezewood and Erie PA, based on The Road. While the book wasn’t specific on locations, the film was shot there.

Sorry, should have added they were bleak and miserable.

What does The Road say about Erie, PA?! I used to live there! I have such fondness for the place though I have not been back in a long time.

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My college had a summer program where you spent several weeks in the Lake District, northern England, and Scotland visiting and hiking to places authors lived/wrote about. We read books and poems and then went to the site. We read lots of Wordsworth and visited his house, as well as Coleridge. We also visited the Brontë museum/the Moors (where a ruin of a house said to have inspired Wuthering Heights still stands- very cool to see), Whitby (for Dracula), Beatrix Potter’s house, and then various sites around Edinburgh and St Andrews. I’m forgetting much of it but it was a truly fabulous course and experience! So fun to read something and then literally home to see what the author was writing about— often still standing 100-200 years later!

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I am planning on taking a girls trip to Scotland next year since we are all Outlander fans.

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We visited Vlad the Impaler’s castle and the one that inspired Dracula in Romania. They were amazing!

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Thirsk, England - home of James Herriot/All Creatures Great and Small

New Bedford, MA - site of a few early scenes in Moby Dick

Will get up to Brontë country in North Yorkshire at some point…want to see those Wuthering Heights.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been wanting to go to Ischia after reading the Elena Ferrante series.

We were already in Italy and decided to add a stop to Ischia because then-girlfriend, now wife, read the series. It was the favorite of our stops in the area!

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Anonymous wrote:I read the Winter in Paradise series by Elin Hilderbrand and went to St John after - the trip wasn’t exactly related to the book series but it helped push me to pick it for the trip! I also went to Nantucket for an Elin Hilderbrand event which was cool and showcased a lot of places in her book.

I went to Provence to visit my sister who was studying abroad there but we all read A Year in Provence before we went.

We visited Hemingway’s house in Key West. I also like Paris where he lived and Sun Valley ID area. He had a good taste in places, like Elin Hilderbrand, I think!

More often, after I plan a trip to an area I read a book that takes place there or something. I like doing that.

I just booked a trip to St John-I’ve wanted to go there for a while, but reading the Hildebrand books reinspired me.

PEI has been on my wish list since I first read all the L.M. Montgomery books.

I read a really dumb book set on the Amalfi Coast a few years ago. The plot was terrible, but the descriptions of the scenery and food made me want to go.

I had fun reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Savannah (I was there for work). My daughter just read Twilight as we were driving around the Olympic Peninsula.

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Not a book, but films: I traveled to Monument Valley after falling in love with John Ford's westerns in a literature of film class. It was even more of a dream than it appeared to be on film.

Not really travel, but I moved to New Orleans after falling in love with it in the Anne Rice novels. It lived up to what I'd imagined and more.

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I want to go to Paris a la James Baldwin.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone in a thread about Provence mentioned wanting to see a village because it featured prominently in the book A Year in Provence. It sounded so lovely. I’ve sometimes tacked on book-related sites to trips we’ve made for weddings or events. I visited Flannery O’Connor’s home in Savannah and Thomas Merton’s grave in Kentucky, for example. I’ve never planned a trip around a book or author, though. I’m curious about other non-touristy literary travel. Any great trip ideas or experiences to share?

Before someone screams questions at me saying they can’t plan my vacation if I don’t provide more details, I’ll be clear that I’m just making conversation with other people who want to share travel experiences.

lol yes there is a poster out there that irritates me too. So condescending. Her quick “what are your interests? Do you like museums or mountains? Time of year? We can’t help you without more information!” or my favorite one of hers is “Have you asked [] what they want to do?”

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I’m often inspired by books or TV shows or movies. We went to El Tovar at the Grand Canyon after watching the Great Lodges show. We did a trip to the Lake District in England specifically to go to a restaurant featured in the movie The Trip. Followed that with an Italian trip featuring several places in The Trip to Italy. And have been to multiple sites featured in the Parent Trap although never the purpose of the trip.

Of course we do lots of other things but sometimes need something to jumpstart a trip.