Immersive. Inspiring. Intimate.
About Us
Nerds Tour was created to be a boutique literary tourism company for nerds who want an immersive, inspiring, and interactive experience when they travel. Nerds, Tour! The name is active, but the groups are small because nerds need quiet time, too.
Nerds Tour takes you to where the authors and their geography intersect - the settings of the books, the places where writers lived, the adaptation film sites. Together our small group of lit nerds will spend our days tracing the steps of our favorite characters and engaging ourselves in the world in which the stories occur. At the end of each day, we will return to a shared historic home where we can immerse ourselves in conversations or contemplation.
As an active nerd, I spend at least half of my travel time chasing after artists - where they lived, worked, loved, and died. I nod and smile at the fellow nerds I see trapped inside other tours. I’ve been part of and seen so many large tour groups spilling out of big buses from sterile hotel rooms to traipse after tour guides on megaphones. I decided that wasn’t for me. I wanted to stay in places as old as the fiction I read. I wanted to travel and live with no more than a dozen people who are as interested in literature and film adaptation as I am. When I wasn’t able to find that experience anywhere, I used my background in literature and theatre and created it myself.
An important component of the tours I wanted to create is that we are all in this together. We live together in a period inn and travel together to visit the places that inspire us. In the evenings, we can come together in the pub and discuss our day, read books aloud, listen to guest speakers, or go off on our own for some time in the town.
Our Mission: Nerds Tour is a boutique literary tourism company that creates and delivers tours to places that engage small communities of book-loving travellers. We embrace the title of “Nerd” and are unapologetic about our active pursuit of knowledge in travel.
Joan Weber
Founder & Head Nerd
Thank you for considering to support our work. Your donation today will help us get the company off the ground and to plan more tours in the future. All donations will receive a little swag of thanks; look out for an email after donating and some snail mail after that.