“You can lead me all over Attica or anywhere else you like, simply waving in front of me the leaves of a book.” ~ Socrates   When the Covid lockdowns had begun to take their toll on my everyday tolerance for staying at home – something I thought up to that point was limitless – I decided to travel in my armchair using other peoples travel memoirs as gateways to the world.   “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” ― John Lubbock   People told me I was mad and only making the restrictions worse, but in fact the books I was reading told stories of journeys I would most likely never have taken even without the freeze the pandemic placed on us. As you can see from…