I’m going on a three-week vacation to Scotland and England. I’ve been pondering what to read while traveling. Do you take a book to read on vacation? Or two or three? How do you decide what to read?

On my weekend ventures away, I usually carry the book I’m reading without having to make a decision. I always have many eBooks ready. I want to relax and be entertained.

On my longer jaunts, I concentrate on the destination and focus on a possible historical read. When I went to Peru in March, I was stumped. I took a Harry Potter book in Spanish (Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal) in Spanish to set my mind into Spanish mode. Of course, I still had my wonderful audible and eBook that removed the language element.

For my next trip in May with two author friends to Scotland and England, I have found a few historical novels that will be my reading buddies. For Scotland I have to decide between As Dawn Breaks by Kate Breslin, Facing the Enemy by Paige Edwards, and Misleading Miss Verity by Carolyn Miller. If I read quicker, I’d take all three! For England and the Cornwall area, I’ve chosen Jamaican Inn by Daphne du Maurier and Ross Poldark by Winston Graham. Recently, I finished Carole Johnson’s The Burning Sands and Roseanna White’s The Nature of a Lady, both set in the Cornwall area.

I’m so ready for a time when literature, history, and travel meet to weave my own memories and knowledge with fact and fiction.

“Have a book. Will travel.”

What do you like to read on vacation?