I built Nerds Tour for people who travel the way they read: slowly, on purpose, with the whole story in mind. Not the greatest hits. Not eight cities in ten days. One writer, one painter, one film, one television series, followed all the way through the places that made it.

Place shapes everything. The Brontës wrote the way they did because the Yorkshire moors are an insistent character. Van Gogh’s palette changed in Provence because the light there is genuinely different. Agatha Christie stayed in Wallingford for forty years because that particular bend of the Thames suited her. Geography isn’t backdrop; it’s cause. Standing in the right place changes how you understand the work. I have experienced this. It’s why I do this.

The trips here are built around literature, art, and history, and around the films and series that brought those subjects to life for so many people, however they first encountered them. Some I designed myself. Others I found and vetted because they do the job better than anything I could have built. All of them start from the same question: why does this work feel the way it does, and what happens when you go to “the room where it happened?”

These trips work for a solo traveler who answers to no one, a couple negotiating the pace between themselves, or a group of ten (or more) arriving at the same moment of recognition simultaneously. Sometimes nerds like to travel in packs, especially when everyone is in on the nerd. For groups of ten or more, I will arrange everything and may even be available to be your tour director. The intellectual framework is the same whatever the size of the group.

Browse the trips below. I already can’t wait to talk about whichever one calls to you.