Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Who doesn’t dream of meeting a guy on a train…or travelling around Europe following clues in a diary!
The Map That Leads to You
What you need to know before your trail
Heather has graduated from college in Massachusetts and decides to travel around Europe with her two best friends. She’s left school responsibility behind and adult responsibility is looming, but this is her one, ONE last summer to be free.
Heather doesn’t expect to even meet Jack, let alone fall in love with him. Jack is from Vermont and is a few years older than she is and he appears everything she’s never known He tells her that he’s on a journey of his own – he’s following his grandfather’s journal to various cities around Europe. As Jack and Heather start to get to know one another, little does she know that he has a secret that is going to change absolutely everything.
Locations
Reset- Poland, Czech Republic
- G: Krakow - St. Mary's Basilica
- H: Prague - Astronomical Clock
Travel Guide
Travelling around Europe
A gap year but a journey with a difference. “In a matter of weeks,you will all be in Europe for what used to be called the grand tour; you will be travelling and kicking ass all across the old countries, but for now, in this instant, you are on the verge of everything”
A book is a companion though. You can read it in a special place, like on a train to Amsterdam, then you can carry it home and you chuck it on a shelf, and then years later you remember that feeling you had on the train when you were young. It’s like a little island in time.”
The journey
Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin with its myriad of museums who have their own island! – Altes Museum, Neues Museum, The Bode Museum, the Pergamon Museum, and the Alte Nationalgalerie.
Poland – with its old town in Krakow and the Wasel Castle and Wieliczka Salt mine!
Czech Republic, Italy, France…..Paris ah yes Paris.. A city or two can change a person..
Booktrailer Review
Susan
There were many things which resonated with me in the novel. Not meeting a nice guy on a train sadly, but the references about books and what memories they evoke, the worlds they open up and why they make great travelling companions. I liked Jack from the get go – he likes books and is into something more than just travelling for the same gap year that everyone else seems to do now. He goes on a trail of places mentioned in his grandfather’s diary. A booktrail of sorts for personal reasons. Is older Jack still single I ask myself? But I digress…
Each section is separated into a different country or city! Could this BE any more booktrail tastic? The clues and the journey from one place to another is quite fun – it’s random and very much what you would expect on a gap year. Some of it I remember myself. Remember the freedom of your own gap year, the carefree existence of those times, getting on and off a train at will, staying “anywhere central”….this is a booktrail in a book with maps and ideas of where to go for real!
It’s an easy read, but for the younger reader really. It’s a bit twee in places but maybe I’m old and have forgotten what first love is like. It’s bookishly good fun though following clues around Europe.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Map That Leads to You
Author/Guide: J P Monninger Destination: Various in Europe Departure Time: 2000s
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