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Some of y’all may not know that before this blog became dedicated to travel and lifestyle, it was a book blog. I reviewed hundreds of books and received even more for free (it was a sweet, sweet life), and wrote about them all on this here blog – and years later I’m still a massive book fanatic. I’m currently situated in Aberystwyth, an insanely boring (although pretty) town in the middle of absolute nowhere, craving to go on another foreign adventure. Until then, I plan on living vicariously through travel novels set on the coast of Greece or Italy – and have compiled a list of the best so you guys can impulse buy flights too.

If any of you guys know me, you will also know my love for hot weather, gorgeous Italian food, and spooky haunted buildings. This book incorporates all three, and is the perfect read for just lounging back in a bath, drinking some hot coco and dreaming of faraway lands.

I am so mad after reading this book, because times have changed in the past couple hundred years and now if you hop on a boat to India it could easily get you there in a week – not the six months full of crazy foreign adventures that this crew had. Apparently the world’s longest cruise nowadays doesn’t even match what they used to be, which is really irritating as I just wanted to play out this life for myself.

If this book doesn’t inspire you to grab all your things from your sub-par life and board the next flight to wherever, then frankly, you are a broken human. If you’re looking for an escapist book, then this is probably one of the best that you can get.

THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED

There’s a second book to this which isn’t as good, and several films which again aren’t great, but this first novel is one of the most entertaining things to read as it’s so insane and farcical, and yet you can really get into the plot and the storyline. It makes me mega sad when I find people in their 70s, bedridden and feeling like their lives are over when there’s just so much more life to live, and this book illustrates just that.

MOSQUITOLAND

I love stories of people road-tripping and taking coaches cross-country, and whilst this had more of a whiny teenage voice to it, I still can’t help but love it. It’s pretty basic, about a girl who crosses America on an assortment of coaches due to a family circumstances, but captures the whole road-trip life pretty well. 

THE HEAVENLY ITALIAN ICE-CREAM SHOP

This book literally caused my family to pack their bags and head over to the Amalfi Coast, due to the fact that it is described so beautifully in this book. Apparently it’s quite the disappointment to actually arrive in Positano to find that it’s not actually as quaint and cute in real life, but regardless, it’ll make you want to book a flight out to Italy to try the ice-cream at the very least.

THE GYPSY MADONNA

I just finished this book, and considering I’ve never really been a fan of France nor the countryside, after reading I definitely began to reconsider. I’m a bit miffed that the location technically doesn’t exist, although similar places do, but now I would love to go on an adventure to see the old provincial French life.

Having mentioned how much I love deadpan humour, especially when it comes to travel, Karl Pilkington is pretty much the king of this. I’ve loved all of his TV shows where he’s thrown into beautiful places with incredible scenarios and hates every second of it, and so hearing things from his point of view in all of his novels – especially this first one of a series – is great. 

YOU HAD ME AT MERLOT

Whilst this book is probably more loved by middle-aged women going through a divorce, it’s still a great read. I read this whilst in Greece, and it didn’t help because it made me want to leave Greece to jet off to Tuscany, famously the best place in the world ever (for me, at least). Apparently it’s the final part of a four-part series, but I didn’t know that whilst reading it and still picked up the plot pretty quickly.

Another book set in the warm South of France, this one will have you Googling “job vacancies in France vineyard” like I did (to no avail, sadly). It’s a full-bodied story that will have you laughing aloud and shaking your head, muttering in agreement.

If you guys have read any of these books or could suggest some to help with perpetual, aching wanderlust, let me know in the comments below!

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