Where have you been that you've read about in novel?

[chocolateequinox]

Have you been somewhere on holiday because you read about it in a novel and did it meet up to your expectations?

I wanted to go to some of places in the Austrian Tyrol because of the chalet school books but haven't got there yet.

I've been to Tyrol for skiing and did some location spotting! Actually saw a hotel mentioned in the books.

Was it like you expected?

Shell Island, although the other way around. We'd recently been and DS borrowed a library book called something like "The day my teacher ate me" and it was about a zombie outbreak during a school trip to the "island". DS was well impressed

I actually realised that I lived somewhere where a popular tv series was filmed. It was a really lovely place but they filmed it somewhere else that was really grim for some reason.

@chocolateequinox it was surprisingly like the books... Although their are modern buildings, there are still quite a lot of traditional style chalets. It was Fulmpes we stayed in, then skiing on Stubai Glacier. The Glacier is completely commercialised for skiing- no shepherd's huts to shelter in when your teacher breaks their foot! We drove through Obergammau which was stunning.
DHs work has a barn there for storage purposes (of sports equipment, not cows) and that's an old style barn like in the books

I saw your thread title and honestly can on to say interlaken.

Stunned that your OP is actually about the same place and for the same reason.

It's BEAUTIFUL, but Switzerland is bloody expensive (or was for me at the time!)

Rye (Lone Pine Books/Malcolm Saville)
Dartmoor (Lone Pine Books/Malcolm Saville)
Wrestling (Rye Harbour) (Monica Edwards)
Punchbowl/Hindhead (Monica Edwards)
Corfe Castle (Famous Five/Enid Blyton)
Sark (Adventure on Rainbow Island/Dorothy Clewes)

I do find when I say "let's go somewhere" I get asked what book it's connected to.

I was extremely excited to visit Pevensey Bay where they went on holiday in Ballet Shoes!

Yes, but mainly I do it in the opposite order to you. When we have agreed on a holiday destination I try to read a book set there either beforehand or during.

Oh my gosh. What was it like, pastapestoparmesan?

We went to Spinalonga, in Crete, and it was exactly like I imagined it to be reading The Island by Victoria Hislop. I actually cried going through the archway and looking across to the mainland. It was an incredible place full of history.

Vienna having read The Hare with Amber Eyes. Loved both.

Leominster area because of Foxglove Summer, one of the Rivers of London books. The area is gorgeous. Sadly no fairies or unicorns but I was rewarded by finding picture in the local museum that I’m pretty sure inspired a key scene in the book.

After reading The Shipping News went on a road trip in Newfoundland.

It was years ago. Even the locals were a bit bemused when they asked what brought us to Newfoundland.
It was stunning though. We went in summer, so didn't quite get the storms and ruggedness like in the book.

@Stonerosie67

We went to Spinalonga, in Crete, and it was exactly like I imagined it to be reading The Island by Victoria Hislop. I actually cried going through the archway and looking across to the mainland. It was an incredible place full of history.

I've read that book so many times, very jealous. I'm going to have to read it again now.

There are lots of places I have been to that have also featured in books, but as far as I can recall, the only places that I have been prompted to visit by books are: Carisbrooke Castle (Moonfleet) and Box Hill (Emma).

Well I live in Edinburgh so there's a book around every corner... but it's the dream of my heart to go to Prince Edward Island.

Frenchmans Creek in Cornwall. Was beautiful, and you could just imagine the boat silently creeping in.
Bath, because of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen novels- very regency, more so than I imagined.
Knossos, after reading Elizabeth Goulds" The First Sex", not a novel, but inspiri ing.

LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett have you read Val Mcdiarmids Northanger Abbey? So updated version where the action is shifted to Edinburgh.

Whitby, after reading AS Byatt's Possession.
Lyme Regis, after reading Austen's Persuasion (I'm in good company: Tennyson did the same).

Oh, forgot to include Corfu, which I visited a couple of years ago. I had wanted to visit for almost 50 years, ever since I first read 'My Family and Other Animals'.

@DelphiniumBlue No! Thanks for the tip though because if any Austen needed an update, it's Northanger Abbey!

Rye because of the Mapp and Lucia books. and to a lesser extent Henry James.

Prince Edward Island becaue of Anne of Green Gables. It did not disappoint.

I live in Boston and a visit to Louisa May Alcott's house in Concord is like stepping into a little bit of Little Women - "Amy's" drawings on the wall, the spot where "Meg" was married - it is lovely and authentic.

Bath (didn't go there completely because of Jane Austen but it was a big factor)

London - I go around london looking at places that appeared in novels, especially Trollope.

Ischia because of the Elena Ferrante novels

Oh and Florence, after reading Room With A View. I am a walking cliché...