Loud Latin Laughing Literary musings, book log. Euge! Euge!

A refreshing look at travelling, comparing expectations to reality, travel aided by literature and art. The last chapter (most fresh to my mind) dealt in realizing the beauty around your everyday life, insisting that you need not travel far (merely outside your front door) to be entertained by new thoughts and things you'd not noticed out of habit.

De Botton travels to Barbados, Amsterdam, Egypt (via Flaubert's writings and life), Sinai desert, the English countryside, Madrid, Provence, and his neighborhood block. He interspersed several relevant pictures and paintings between pages of words.

The best travel book I've yet read.