Anyone who likes reading books has probably experienced the moment when you close your eyes and wonder what the place you have just been reading about may look like. Is it inspired by the author’s environs, his home town or travels or is it pure fiction? There is an easy way to find out – literary tourism. Instead of going to the seaside for your holiday, pack your backpack and set out for a trip to places where William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens wrote their major works, visit the favourite spots of the Beatniks or the grave of Ernest Hemmingway and search for the connections between what you have read and what you get to see. The TripAdvisor has chosen top ten literary tourism sites, now brought to you by Tourism-Review.com.
Grasmere in England's Lake District National Park is where William Wordsworth is buried. Grasmere is also the where he wrote much of his best poetry (particularly at Dove Cottage). Surrounded by magnificent mountain scenery and with other cultural connections with Walter Scott, Southey, De Quincey and Coleridge, Grasmere must surely make the top ten list - it may be small but it is perfectly formed!