THIS SUMMER: FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO WANDER AND WRITE

New Wanderess Literary Tour & Writers’ Workshop Launches in the Mediterranean

Head to Croatia this summer to live the life of a wanderer or wanderess and create your own story in the process.  For a few select weeks this summer, a maximum of six passengers (per week) are invited to spend seven days with Roman Payne, the author of “The Wanderess,” exploring the Adriatic Sea aboard the luxury sailing yacht, “Gold One.”

Fans of “The Wanderess” will enjoy literary discussions with its author, while writers of all levels will receive expert guidance to help them advance on their own manuscripts.  “It is a sailing adventure meant to inspire and set your creativity free,” says Payne, “and by the end of the week, I will make sure you are on your way towards finishing your novel!”

His novel, “The Wanderess,” is highly-praised for its exceptional literary quality.  It has influenced everything from pop music in America, to film in England, to Bollywood and Fashion Week in India.  Payne’s poetry is considered first-class and has inspired thousands (people around the world even tattoo his words on their bodies!)

The Roman Payne literary cruise dispatches from the Croatian city of Split, and offers some of the best sailing in the world (Croatia is home to over 1,000 islands!).  Passengers also visit Italy on the tour.

For those who love wining and dining in addition to literature, Wanderess Tours offer something doubly-delightful: the best quality natural foods and exotic delicacies (truffles, saffron, gourmet cheeses), together with the inexpensive cost of buying direct from the farmer at the village market.  Each port city that you stop at, the Gold One drops anchor and you’ll have the pleasure of exploring city sights, shopping, and buying the freshest ingredients for your daily meals which you may prepare yourself on board in the yacht’s gourmet kitchen.  If spectacular wines help your creativity and inspiration, you are in luck: Croatia, the birthplace of Zinfandel, has some of the best wines on earth.  Sample some aboard to add festivity to your literary adventure.

Other activities besides the literary discussions and writers’ workshops include sunbathing, swimming, and kite surfing.  There are double cabins available.  The cost is 1,300€ per person. To book a week’s Wanderess Tour, please send an email to contact@wanderess.com.

 

Tours are organized in part by Travel Writers’ Network.

 

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.”       

– Roman Payne

Literary Quote for Travelers and Wanderers, by Roman Payne

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.”

― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

Literary Quote by Roman Payne

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”

― Roman Payne

Paris today, Dublin Tomorrow, then 1,000km of Bicycle Exploration in Western Ireland

Today I’m having lunch in Paris.  Tomorrow, it’s dinner in Dublin!  Then, after an evening touring the city of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett and a good night’s sleep, I’ll head north-west to Sligo (also called “Yeats Country” since the poet WB Yeats spent his childhood there.  This land of waterfalls and cliffs, mountains and beaches, and rolling hills, Yeats called “the country of the heart.”

Atlantic coast of Ireland, with soaring cliffs, beaches, waterfalls, and hilly terrain. I will cover 80km-90km of this region per day on bicycle.

From Sligo, I’ll began a 10-day solo bicycling tour, riding 80km to 90km per day.  I will stop to take photos, learn about the culture, the history, and literary heritage of this region of Ireland.

Each day, after my exertion, I’ll stop at one of the auberges, or beds-and-breakfasts (chosen by the operator of the tour company), and sleep until the first light of dawn.  Then, it’s back on the bicycle!  I will have ridden close to 1,000km by the end of the tour.

Please follow along with my journey by checking back with my blog, my Facebook page, and/or on CulturalBook.com.

The region I will discover is described as one of the most beautiful, and least explored regions of Ireland.