Ok...so we've been "library tourists" without knowing it. I do like his approach to travel and it's what we have done. I suppose that's why we keep going back to the same old places. We don't have to see anything because we have already seen the major sites. We also value leisurely mornings with our coffee and old fashioned print newspaper. We have probably enjoyed newspapers wherever we've been especially in the UK and not really quite so much in France especially Paris where the two newspapers Le Figaro and Le Monde are intellectual debates about issues. Very erudite but not our idea of morning reading especially in a foreign language. In Paris we read the Herald Tribune and caught up on North American news. Now, in the south of France there was the Var- Matin which was a local type of newspaper and more what we want. When we were doing most of our travel online newspapers and internet connections weren't in the picture.
"This could become your new secret traveling mission.
A few weeks back I wrote about how you should set yourself a 'secret mission' when traveling in a foreign city. The idea is that, by pursuing something interests you, you'll escape the usual tourist traps and see more of a city's local side. For me, that's often food shops and market stalls. Others seek out supermarkets, pharmacies, music stores, and bakeshops.
Now I have another suggestion: Why not engage in library tourism? This fun idea comes via an article in The Daily Beast, titled, "We Took Our Young Children on a Library World Tour — And It Was Marvellous." Stuart Kells recounts his family's quest to visit several of the most prominent libraries in the world, including,"
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