DESTINATIONS LITERARY EXPERIENCES | FOOD & DRINK HOLIDAYS 3 Ernest Hemingway’s Florida Keys


It feels like every other destination, from Cuba to Paris, lays some claim to Ernest Hemingway. Key West, though, has something to trump them all: The Hemingway Home, now a museum overrun by descendants of the author’s six- toed cats (a genetic trait).


Clients can visit other haunts including Sloppy Joe’s, his favourite drinking spot, Captain Tony’s Saloon and Blue Heaven, a popular brunch and lunch


restaurant in the building where Hemingway officiated boxing matches. Book it: A seven-night Florida Keys fly-drive costs from £1,559 per person in June 2022, including Virgin Atlantic flights from Heathrow to Miami, car hire, one night at the Marina del Mar in Key Largo, four nights at the Best Western Hibiscus in Key West and two nights at Coconut Cay Resort in Marathon, all B&B. americaasyoulikeit.com


Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans


Many authors have ties to the Louisiana city, though few quite so deeply as Tennessee Williams. The playwright lived in the city and used it as the setting for his most famous work, A Streetcar Named Desire, and several short stories. There’s even a March festival dedicated to his legacy, with cocktail- making classes, hosted dinners and a Books and Beignets book club (complete with the city’s famous puffed-up doughnuts). Clients can also hop aboard the


revolving Carousel Bar (Williams’ favourite, pictured) at Hotel Monteleone and order the author’s


signature cocktail, a brandy Alexander. Book it: The four-day All That Jazz tour of New Orleans includes a mixology class, Cajun-style crawfish boil and a jazz dinner cruise down the Mississippi. From £1,179 per person (based on two sharing), excluding flights. theculturetrip.com


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Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo


Ramen joints and jazz bars feature heavily in the novels of Haruki Murakami, who owned a Tokyo club called Peter Cat (now closed) when he wrote his debut novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in 1979. Fans of his fiction can graze their way through Japan’s capital at spots such as Tempura Imoya, where a pre-fame Murakami and his wife often dined, and Hope-ken, a ramen shop namechecked in Hard- Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Suggest they also seek out Dug, a jazz bar that features in


Murakami’s best-known (and food-rich) novel Norwegian Wood. Book it: A bespoke, six-night Murakami’s Tokyo tour costs from


£1,569 per person (excluding international flights). The trip includes a night at a traditional ryokan in Hakone (featured in South of the Border, West of the Sun), ground transport and a private tour of locations with links to Murakami and his works. insidejapantours.com


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