Early & Away Travel Company
Literary travel for people who do their reading first.
Every trip is built around a reading list, a landscape, and the kind of people you'd want to spend a week with. Here's what's on the horizon.
Voyage M632 · Early & Away Curated Group
Nov 28 – Dec 5, 2026 · 7 nights
Seven nights crossing the Atlantic aboard Queen Mary 2, with the Cheltenham Literature Festival bringing authors, journalists, and historians aboard. Book through Early & Away and you won't arrive as a stranger.
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Hosted Literary Retreat · Royal Clipper
Jan 16–23, 2027 · 7 nights
The world's largest full-rigged sailing ship. The islands that shaped Age of Sail mythology. Evening literary programming with four curated reading tracks. Days entirely your own.
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Hosted Retreat · Celtic Romantasy
September 2027 · ~9 nights
Castle hotels, the Burren on foot, and the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival. A retreat built for Celtic romantasy and Irish mythology readers — in the landscape that inspired the genre.
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Curated Group · VIA Rail's The Canadian
August 2027 · ~9 days
Board the same transcontinental railway that carried immigrants into the Saskatchewan prairie. Fall asleep to an enormous prairie sky. Wake to the Canadian Rockies. A literary rail retreat with four curated reading tracks and Fairmont hotels.
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January 15–24, 2028
January 15–24, 2028 · 8 days
Alaska in January — Northern Lights, dog sledding, hot springs, and the reading list that made the Last Frontier a literary landscape. Jack London, John McPhee, Eowyn Ivey. Eight days. Four days of PTO.
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May 2028 · 7 days
Croatia's Istrian peninsula — medieval hilltop villages, truffle forests, Venetian harbors, and the place where James Joyce started writing Dubliners. A reading retreat in a landscape that feels like Tuscany before the world discovered it.
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September 2028 · 12 days
Munich to Budapest by rail through the heart of Transylvania. Saxon citadels, Carpathian castles, Habsburg coffeehouses, and the landscapes that inspired Gothic fiction. Twelve days, September 2028.
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