Category: Adventuring

The Book to Bring to Positano, Italy

An image of the cover of the novel One Italian Summer

Looking for a book full of charms, a story with a bit of romance and a dose of magical realism, a novel with a setting most desirable—Positano, Italy—and characters in a healthful range of ages? Then pick up One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle.

Best Restaurants in Key West – Latitudes on Sunset Key

Interior of one of the best restaurants in Key West: Latitudes on Sunset Key. Photo credit: M. Ciavardini

Everyone and anyone who is remotely a foodie and who has been to the best restaurants in Key West in recent history keeps mentioning Latitudes on Sunset Key, so much so that we begin to feel like jerks for not going there. How can you go to Key West and not go to Latitudes?!

How to Reinforce Travel Memories

Shown: The words "how to reinforce travel memories" superimposed over a scrapbook. The Bashful Adventurer suggests ways to preserve travel memories. Photo credit: L. Tripoli.

The Bashful Adventurer does some targeted souvenir-shopping and takes other fun measures to reinforce travel memories—and to keep her passion for travel alive.

The Travel Comeback Is Now

A train departure board with a sign reminding riders to wear face coverings. Photo credit: L. Tripoli.

Here’s what holiday 2020 travel data is starting to teach us: we’ve embarked on a travel comeback, but travel is not going to look like it did before.

A Book about Adventures in Travel at an Uncertain Time

The Bashful Adventurer picks up a romance novel written in the late 1930s hoping to see if and how the author addressed the coming war—and ends up getting a lesson on careers in the travel and tourism industry at a time when adventures in travel were far from mainstream. Image shows the cover of Honeymoons Arranged by Maysie Greig.

The Bashful Adventurer picks up a romance novel written in the late 1930s hoping to see if and how the author addressed the coming war—and ends up getting a lesson on careers in the travel and tourism industry at a time when adventures in travel were far from mainstream