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Free Badiani Ice Cream with ‘You Deserve Good Gelato’ by Kacie Rose

You may have seen her hilarious TikTok videos about the everyday culture shocks of being an American living in Italy, now Kacie Rose has collated her experiences into a new book; You Deserve Good Gelato.

To celebrate the launch we’ve teamed up with DK and our neighbours Badiani for a delicious collaboration.

Visit Stanfords Covent Garden Store and get a FREE Badiani gelato voucher with your purchase of You Deserve Good Gelato between 28th May – 4th June

– 10% discounted gelato when you take your copy of You Deserve Good Gelato to any Badiani store across the UK from 28th May – 4th June.

Book Launch: Why We Travel by Ash Bhardwaj

Last week we hosted the launch of Why We Travel by Ash Bhardwaj.

Why We Travel is a smart-thinking travel book, which uses travel as a window into human motivations. It explores what we can gain from venturing out into the world.

Can we travel better?

We spend more on travel than on any other leisure activity. But Ash Bhardwaj believes that we can make travel more fulfilling by thinking about our motivations for doing it. He explores this in his book, Why We Travel, through a blend of travelogue, memoir, research, and advice.

Because of my work, people often ask me for travel recommendations. But as I wrote and researched Why We Travel, I realised that destinations are the wrong place to start our travel-plans, because different places suit different motivations at different times.

10 place names that ended up in the dictionary

New etymological guide Around the World in 80 Words by Paul Anthony Jones takes the reader on a circumnavigation of the English language, tracing the meanings and histories of eighty words derived from world place names. To whet your globetrotting appetite, here are ten of the book’s most fascinating entries …

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