Travel, food and solitude

Solitary travels and the books and foods that sustain us.

Since our last episode about cooking and eating alone, we have been thinking about solitude, and it seems that many of you have as well after hearing from listeners who have since ordered Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She believed that the cure for loneliness is solitude, and she found this by travelling alone.

As Sophie and I are home for now, but have recently waved off many friends travelling worldwide this year, it got us thinking about the combination of solitude and travel.

And, if you are at a stage of life where neither solitude nor travel is possible, what would it be like to explore that in your mind? Could it open the door to new possibilities? We can armchair travel together with the recommendations Sophie and I have put together below. And we hope they help you ‘travel’ to some far flung places find new foods to accompany you on the journey!

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Germaine’s books

I hope there is something for everyone here with these three memoirs written during three different decades of adulthood by authors looking to expand their minds and senses with travel.

Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom