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Category Archives: Asia
Come for the pandas, stay for the bookstores
Most travelers to China visit the Sichuan Province capital city of Chengdu for the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve, but bibliophiles will want to make time for the amazing Fangsuo Bookstore. With a dramatic entrance way and cavernous interiors, the bookshop … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Asia, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism
Tagged Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Wolong
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Libraries of the Mind
Shanghai-based artist Jie Ma’s imagined libraries are surreal, literary dreamscapes that intrigue and challenge the viewer. The extraordinary digital images offer fantastic sci-fiesque libraries of the mind.
Who You Calling A Soft Egg (NSFW)
If you are easily offended by salty language, please do not watch this video. But if you’re up for a good laugh, enjoy. One benefit of international travel is not understanding when you’re being insulted by a local. Although, I … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, South America, USA
Tagged cursing, insults, language skills
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Unconventional Bookselling
Morioka Shoten & Co. in Tokyo’s Ginza district opened this Spring with a singular approach to bookselling. The tiny, gallery-like shop carries just one title each week. The founder of this enigmatic bookshop model, Yoshiyuki Morioka, has taken curation to … Continue reading
Whoopsie Daisy Indeed
This week, a 12-year-old Taiwanese boy tripped on a museum display and accidently punched a hole in a $1.5 350-year-old painting. Flowers, by Paolo Porpora, is part of a traveling exhibition called “Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius”. No … Continue reading
Not so secret, but worth a look anyway
Love Home Swap, a popular home exchange website, analyzed more than 700,000 travel tips from 70,000 site members to create a list of travel recommendations. here’s the result in their “Top 150 Secret Destinations” infographic. Maybe not so secret, but … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Canada, Europe, Museums, Restaurants, South America, Tourism, USA
Tagged Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Montreal, Sydney, Vienna
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Teahouse with Laserbeams
The Japanese artist who goes by the enigmatic name of Segawa Thirty Seven turns classic woodblock prints and paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries into amusing animated gifs. The addition of trains, spaceships, kites, lasers and flying objects bring … Continue reading
Book and Bed
Beginning next month, book lovers who visit Tokyo will have a very special place to stay. The Book and Bed Hotel, which is located in the Toshima district, comes fully stocked with thousands of books provided by Shibuya Publishing Booksellers … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Hotels, Tourism
Tagged Shibuya Publishing, Tokyo, Toshima
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Are You An Honest Book Buyer
Last month a new concept in bookselling was launched in Nanjing, China. Located in a popular square in the city’s Baixia district, the “Honesty Bookshop” operates without a cashier or onsite staff, because customers pay for their purchases by dropping … Continue reading
The Escapist
Regular visitors to TBTP are well aware of my inordinate enthusiasm for old school print travel magazines. So, it will be no surprise that I’m a big fan of The Escapist from the editors of MONOCLE. Each issue of this … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, South America, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged Alaska, Argentina, Ethiopia, Poland, Thailand
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Travel Between The Pages 