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Some Reads for the Road, to Celebrate World Book Day

March 1, 2012 at 2:06 PM | by | Comments (0)


Or there's always Tintin!

Today, March 1st 2012, is World Book Day. While you'll still get a chance to hit the library or overbuy novels at your local bookstore in May for National Book Day, we wanted to chime in with a few recommendations for early spring.

Classics:

Italian Hours by Henry James
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Anything by Freya Stark

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Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen to Make a 'Portlandia' Travel Guidebook

February 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM | by | Comment (1)

IFC's hit series Portlandia has been showing us around Portland's neighborhoods for two seasons, and now they are bringing that expertise to bookstores.

Hachette imprint Grand Central Publishing will release “PORTLANDIA: A Guide for Visitors” later this year. The book will be written like a traditional travel guide, but instead of providing practical information, like prices or reviews, it will take readers on a tour of Portland's landmarks, shops, and restaurants in the same quirky tone Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen use on their sketch comedy show.

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Last-Minute Gift Idea: Wonderful, Out of Date Travel Advice

December 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM | by | Comments (0)

Still scrambling for a last-minute gift for your sister/baby-sitter/party hostess/globe-trotting cousin/self? If the person in question loves to travel, pop down to your local bookshop (you know, if you still have one) and ask for a copy of this little gem: Hints to Lady Travellers At Home and Abroad.

Never mind that this all-encompassing travel 'how to' was published in 1889; the advice dispensed by Ms. Lillias Campbell Davidson within proves to be surprisingly prescient. Not to mention entertaining.

The book—reissued this year—is perfectly sized to stuff a stocking or slide into a side pocket of your carry-on. Its bite-sized chapters are organized alphabetically, like so: "Accidents, Apartments, Baths, Boarding-houses, Booking-offices, cabs, cab fares, Cushions..."

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Sipping Coffee with a Side of Lonely Planet; Welcome to Chicago's Kopi Cafe

November 1, 2011 at 3:16 PM | by | Comments (0)

It's perhaps about time we shared a secret with you—the secret of our favorite coffeeshop in Chicago. True northside Chicagoans should know it already, but visitors to the Windy City would likely skip over the cafe—and indeed its entire, awesome neighborhood of Andersonville—completely. You shouldn't do that—you should go to Kopi: A Traveler's Cafe.

Sure, we were originally attracted many years ago by the name "Traveler's Cafe," but Kopi delivers on many levels above and beyond the bookshelf stacked with an okay selection of travel guides. For one, it has a huge menu of coffee drinks (spicy Oregon chai? check. Viennese coffee? check. Thai iced coffee? you know it). It's casual and affordable, and the lack of WiFi means it's not a laptop farm (yet).

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Climb Aboard East London's Book Barge for Lit-Nerd Delights and 'Bibliotherapy'

Where: Regents Canal, London, United Kingdom
July 26, 2011 at 3:52 PM | by | Comments (0)

Bibliophiles who land in London may find themselves beset with disappointment at the sight of many a so-so bookseller, W.H. Smith and Waterstones among the city's prominent chains. But, as we recently reported, the literary-minded city is also rich with independent shops with a penchant for carefully selecting their stock and giving their customers the kind of knowledgeable, personal attention every proper lit-monger demands.

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London for Bibliophiles: Three Havens for Bookish Travelers

June 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM | by | Comments (0)


Daunt Books, Marylebone

London is a city of lit-mongers. Its rich literary history earns it cool points among traveling bibliophiles, who flock to the city to seek out Shelley's house in Soho, walk the learned streets of Bloomsbury and generally immerse themselves in its bookish environs.

The city is teeming with bookshops that celebrate all things erudite, stores that avid readers could easily get lost in for hours on end. If you count yourself among this group, then take note of the following three locales: nerd-tested (and we mean that in a good way), Jaunted-approved.

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Moby Makes a Transition from Musician to Travel Photographer

March 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

Word just hit our inbox that Moby, whom nobody much listens to anymore (even though his tea is good), is getting into the travel photography game with a new tome, due out in May. The book, a collection of "packed stadiums to desolate airports, and vacuum-sealed hotel rooms," is Moby's photographic diary of life on the road.

If you're not so interested in the 55 photos from all over the world, snapped by Moby (that middle right one looks suspiciously like an iPhone photo), then surely you'll want to know that the book includes Moby's entire next album, Destroyed, as the songs on it were mostly written in these hotel rooms late at night.

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How To Meet European Men? Not This Way This Girl Does, For Starters

October 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM | by | Comments (0)

The burning question of the last 24 hours? Is Katherine Chloe Cahoon, the Vanderbilt grad who’s written a guide to meeting European men called, um, The Single Girl’s Guide to Meeting European Men, for real?

Hands up - we haven’t read the book, but we have watched the videos that we found here and seen the pictures on her Facebook page and, well, words kinda fail us. For a start, Katherine seems to be under the impression that Europe is a country (choice quote: “If you’re going to be attached to your towel [on the beach], you’re not going to be attached to European men”). For another, that all men are the same. And last but by no means least, that a wooden smile and a stiff walk will snag you any dreamboat you want, as long as you say the magic words: “tell me more”.

Surely it must be taking the mick?

Well, yesterday she blogged that her videos are indeed parodies:

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The Best Little Travel Bookstore in All of New York City

October 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

Do you have a favorite book from your childhood that inspired you to travel? We do, actually two: The Red Carpet Chase and The Road to Timbuktoo. It can be hard these days to find an instant classic to give to your child or to give as a gift to inspire wanderlust early, but there's a New York City bookstore that has solved this by carrying an impressive selection of children's travel books (and some foreign language ones, too). It's the Union Square area's Idlewild Books, at 12 West 19th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Idlewild's been around for a couple of years and it's surviving because it's not simply stocked with giant Frommer's guides and bland Atlases. Nope, instead it stocks a modern variety, including the awesome Luxe Guides and Wallpaper Guides, in addition to the entire wall of children's books. Typically we come here when give up on the internet and need to buy specific books, but then we end up spending far too much. It's kind of a hidden gem like that.

Yesterday evening, a French language immersion class was holding court in the store's backroom as we browsed, and book signings and talks are not uncommon; the whole setup is perfect. Even the name of the store is ingenious; Idlewild is the former name of JFK Airport, before they named it after President Kennedy.

[Photo: Jaunted]

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Score 20% Off LUXE City Guides Until July 17

July 2, 2010 at 12:56 PM | by | Comments (0)


A couple Luxe guides from our private collection

**Discount for Jaunted Readers**: Because we love you and apparently LUXE does too, we're giving you 20% off on the LUXE City Guides Online Store products. These include 31 city guides from LA to London, from Paris to Phuket, and gift box sets too. (Check out the LUXE Bespoke service where you can choose which city guides to place in a exquisite handmade box.)

Just go to LuxeCityGuides.com and browse the online store.

When you have chosen your product, enter the promo code "JAUNTED" at checkout to receive the discount. This discount will only be available until July 17 so don't delay! (Sorry, the discount is only good for the online store, not mobile apps.)

We've already waxed philosophic about these awesome, pocket-size guides already here, but trust us when we tell you that they're ideal for city-hoppers who want to know what's hot for where to shop, dine, drink, walk and even grab a coffee.

Related Stories:
· Hotel Guidebook Picks: LUXE City Guides Recommend Only the Hotels du Jour [HotelChatter]
· Going Through Guidebook Withdrawl: How to Travel Lighter [Jaunted]
· Luxe City Guides [Official Site]

[Photo: Jaunted]

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LUXE City Guides for Both Young and Old Cynical Travelers

June 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM | by | Comments (0)

We know, we know, guidebooks are on their way out and pretty soon, the younger generation coming up will ask us what it was like to travel with guidebooks once.

But we've always been a fan of LUXE City Guides for their slim, very portable design and fun accordion-style fold-out pages. Oh, and also their witty prose which tells you both what's in right now and what's way, way, out. These guides are perfect for the traveler who gets the shakes at the sight of a Visitor Welcome Center. As their tagline reads, "Stylish, Brutally Frank and Sometimes, Frankly, Brutal."

Check out their overview of London for a taste of their wit:

Hey there Georgie Girl...what's with the Russian accent? She may be gripped by masspiration, new monied affluenza and a serious outbreak of chainstore-itis but fret not this dolly hasn't been around for over 2,000 years and not learnt a trick or two.

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The Titanic Awards: Recognizing the 'World's Worsts' in Travel

May 7, 2010 at 9:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

Whether or not you want to admit, there are times during a trip when everything doesn't go quite as planned. Perhaps your airline meal gives you a serious case of the poops before you even arrive and have a chance to drink the water, or maybe you've traveled all the way to Prague for a beer tour, only to arrive and discover that you don't much care for the taste of Czech beer.

It's okay. We've all been there, and at least there's one place where we can commiserate and read about other horrible (but entertaining) travel experiences. It's called the Titanic Awards, a site that documents the "world's worsts" in travel, and its editor Doug Lansky has just flipped the site into a book.

The book launched only days ago, and Amazon has it up for sale for $10.04. That means it's next on our toilet reading list, for sure. Especially since Lansky gives a preview of some of the juiciness in the book over at the Huffington Post. We mean, "The 5 Worst Airline Meals of All Time" and "9 Countries with the Worst Beer in the World?" Say no more, really.

Related Stories:
· Titanic Awards [Official Site]
· The Five Worst Airline Meals of All Time [HuffPost]
· Travel Books [Jaunted]

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