I was reading this article about Dan Brown's new book and how Florence is expecting tourism to increase as a result of readers wanting to visit the town, Palazzo Vecchio and its "labyrinthine corridors" and I was thinking that we have probably all had the experience of reading a book and then remembering passages/characters when we actually visit the town where the story was set.
Or the other way round, maybe we have visited a place and then when we read a book set there we just can't help reminiscing the place, our own experiences or memories, the atmosphere, the noises, the smells, the people, the music, ...
Don't you agree that the whole reading experience is made richer by the experiences we bring into it?
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