THE NOTEBOOK: REAL TRAVELS BEHIND THE FICTION

The person behind the stories

Notebook

Real travels. Actual photographs. A journal from the other side of the fiction.

The author standing between the statues of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan in Reagan Park

Field Notes · Poland

The Real Gdansk

The city behind “I Came to Disappear”

A shipyard city, beginnings and endings, and the unlikely Florida origin of a story set on the Baltic.

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More from the Notebook

A Charles Bridge statue beneath a reddish night sky, with Prague Castle lit across the river

Field Notes · Czech Republic

The Real Prague

The city behind “Trumpette Tours”

Two trips, a great many cobblestones, and the real city behind a very loud fictional walking tour.

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From the stories to the streets

Follow the stories. Meet the traveler.

Follow the strange stories and the real travels of the person behind them.