Books and Places

When we moved to Germany, part of why we wanted to go was to see places we'd read and studied about. We enjoyed going to cathedral, museums, and palaces. Now we are back in the states and I enjoy reading certain books because of the character and plots and others because of the setting. Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo is set in Bruge, well, the first book is. Bruge is an absolutely wonderful town. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone is mostly set in Florence. Florence is also a great place to visit. The history of those places is interesting, the architecture is wonderful, and rereading those books is sort of like revisiting them. There are other books with place associations that I enjoy, but those two pop to mind easily.