“Literature and travel are anciently, inevitably tangled. Journeys suggest stories, stories take the form of journeys, odyssey, exoduses, pilgrims’ and rakes’ progresses”
– Jonathan Raban, For Love and Money
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Market day in Montpellier, France, October 2016
A good book is irresistible – books told me to travel when I was a child, they encourage my ongoing travel and they accompany me wherever I go.
I felt entirely at home in this part of Montpellier!
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 23 October 2016
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Travel with Intent 
Love a good book, especially a bargain one!
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Bargains are always welcome 🙂
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Looks like a perfect day!
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Absolutely 🙂
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I do love a good market abroad. Just found a very good one here in Bavaria, addicted already and I have only been the once! 😀
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Happy browsing! I think I could get addicted to Montpellier on Fridays!
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Books, travel, markets, cofee ….. the perfect morning. Thank you for taking me there!
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I can see we could spend a happy morning together!
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It looks a lovely place for an explore on a weekend
Thank you for linking up
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Looks a great market for a stroll amongst the second hand books! Books and travel are very important to me…both feed the mind and the emotions…..
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Great read! You have inspired me to visit Montpellier 🙂
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I thought I recognized the street! We were there in August, such a lovely city and I bet it is lovely now with the autumn leaves.
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It is a lovely place – I actually felt at home in the city as a whole. And it is on the doorstep of the Camargue and some of my favourite French cities: Marseille, Sete and Arles, to name a few
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Jonathan Raban is speaking for himself. I did all the research for Passage to Juneau (well, the translation). I wish I were free to travel as much as you obviously do, but reading blogs from all over the world is like vicarious travelling.
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I’ve been making the most of life this year – and for me that means lots of different things, but travelling is a big one. I was very ill at the end of last year and that can teach you to get out and do things.
Translating that book must have been quite an experience.
I see that you studied librarianship at some point and some of your studying was in UK. Where did you do librarianship – I did it in Sheffield
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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In Hamburg.
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I trained the librarians there on the automated library system they bought from UK!
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Public or university libraries? Both systems underwent a lot of changes – for the better, I hope. I became a translator, because there were no jobs (absolutely none) for trained librarians. So I was forced to plunge into freelancing. Non, je ne regrette rien. 🙂
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A good move I think! I sold a system to Hamburg Public Library, and a few others in France and Switzerland. This was back in mid-80’s. There will have been huge changes since. But I left libraries and moved into cash machines. Now I’m trying to do what I really want – writing and photography (and travel!)
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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I’m happy for you and me, because I wouldn’t fancy images of cash machines from you.
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