My favourite nooks

I really mean nooks here…not just cities I love, or sights that will be permanently stamped in memory (Machu Picchu at sunrise), but small, hidden or enclosed spaces that I would never miss visiting if I was in the area.

Perhaps it might be common sense, but most of these are in places where I lived:

1. The hammock in the front yard of Lida and Francisco’s house, Panama
2. Back corner table, the Beautiful Café (officially, La Croissanterie Figaro), Montreal, Canada
3. Pages Bookstore, Toronto, Canada
4. Any college courtyard, Oxford, UK
5. West Village, Manhattan, NY
6. Cayo Jutias, the second beach past the mangroves, Cuba
7. The Arboretum, Ottawa, Canada
8. Los Quetzales Lodge, Guadalupe, Panama
9. The “forest” (20 scrawny trees) behind the school near my parents’ house
10. Along the Old Wall, Nanjing, China