Travellers Tales - Books 1 and 2

06/03/2023

Bude Literary Festival is returning for a second year ... and I am giving a talk again about my travels and books. If anyone is interested in hearing me speak, here is the link to the programme.
Rosemary Lee

Bude Literary Festival is back! 18-21 May, 2023 Bude’s first ever Literary Festival took place in May 2022, and was hailed a huge success with more than 1,500 people participating… Continue Reading Bude Literary Festival 2022

01/11/2021

November has arrived – so Christmas is getting closer! What to buy for any travellers (or armchair travellers) among your friends and family? How about one or more books from my ‘Covid trilogy’? All available (as books or e-books) from Amazon.

08/08/2021

TRAVEL WITHOUT TESTING OR QUARANTINE! Investigate the hidden corners of Europe with my latest book ‘European Memories’ … explore remote parts of the world with ‘Traveller’s Tales’ Books 1 & 2. All available now from Amazon!

18/07/2021

“First of all came the Allied checkpoint (a mere formality), then we passed the DDR’s watch-towers and armed guards, barbed wire and concrete vehicle traps, driving along a pothole strewn road, watched all the time by guards with binoculars.”
How Europe has changed over the past decades! Explore those ‘European Memories’ with me, with the last of my lockdown trilogy, available now on Amazon.

17/06/2021

I just wanted to share with you the latest news about the third (and definitely last!) book in my lockdown trilogy: European Memories. It is a collection of memories of my travels around Europe, and especially of my time as a tour manager escorting European tours in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and includes a few b/w photos, too.

‘European Memories’
was published on June 14th 2021!
European Memories is available NOW (both as paperback and e-book) for sale on Amazon.

The cover blurb describes the book’s contents:

How well do you know Europe? Probably most of us have favourite memories … perhaps a secret sandy beach, an awe-inspiring palace, a remote mountain meadow or an exhilarating fiesta? This is such a varied continent, with a huge range of landscapes and centuries of history – can anyone claim to know it intimately?
For over 50 years, I have been visiting Europe, both its familiar tourist haunts and its hidden corners – sometimes as a tourist myself, or visiting friends … but especially through 25 years of escorting coach tours around the continent. My memories include architectural wonders and magnificent scenery, but also the complicated procedures necessary to guide a group to enjoy them. Certain places remain in my memory only because of situations or events which took place there – some challenging (what would you do, if a guest died on your coach?) and some amusing (could you explain to a group of ladies, how to use a French toilet?).
Yet I have been privileged to personally experience huge changes over the years … as Central European countries broke free from the communist yoke to reclaim their independence … as divided Germany was reunified … as Yugoslavia was torn apart by earthquake and war. Come and travel with me through the countries of Europe,
as I have known them!

If you missed them, ‘Traveller’s Tales Book One: Innocent Youth to Sober Maturity’ (describing my travels pre-Millennium) and ‘Traveller’s Tales Book Two: Advancing Years Will Not Stop Me!’ are also still available, and have received some wonderful reviews:

“With vivid descriptions of places and people, the author transports you off the beaten track.”

“Rosemary’s passion for travel sings out from every page.”

“I am transported once more through brilliant writing … these books are so much more than travel diaries!”