Travel Services and Guided Tours for Nerds
Who Want to Learn When They Travel
About Us
Nerds Tour was created to be a boutique travel company for nerds who want to learn while they travel. We are a full-service travel company, as well as a tour leader. We have created a set of scheduled tours around the literary and theatrical arts. Check out Our Tours for more information. Schedule a Chat to discuss your travel needs and Nerds Tour can help create your dream vacation.
Nerds Tour offers literary nerd expert-lead tours that take 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 space where we can immerse ourselves in conversations or contemplation. Check out the Our Tours Page
We also offer expert consulting on any nerd travel that you want to take. Certified travel consultants will help you design and implement the nerd tour of your dreams, including small group tours, housing, transportation, as much or as little as you need. Check out the Travel Services Page.
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 travel I want to create is that we are all in this together. Nerds often have a hard time being a part of large tour groups that are designed around general interest. There’s never enough time or enough information to feed our brains. Nerds Tour specializes so that we can spend time focusing on single topics (individual writers or cities) or small topics (romanticism in England) so that we can all learn together and teach each other.
Our Mission: Nerds Tour is a boutique literary tourism company that creates and delivers tours to places that engage small communities of nerd travellers who want to learn when they travel. 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.
Testimonials
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“The Austen Adventure Tour was a great mix of group activities and independent time to explore. I really appreciated the itinerary Nerds Tour put together, much of which would not have been available to me as a solo traveler.”
Erika W.
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"I LOVED our Jane Austen trip with Nerds Tour this summer. It was magical to walk in Jane’s footsteps and visit locations where she lived, wrote and died. Joan Weber is an excellent tour guide; every minute was researched and well planned. I loved the small size of the group and the balance of small town walking tours and bus trips to London, Bath and Winchester. If you have a chance to join the next Jane Austen tour, do it!"
Marty H.
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I had such a great time on the Jane Austen Nerds Tour, summer of 2023! While I had not previously been a passionate Austen fan, I already knew Joan Weber personally, and knew she would produce a tour that was fun and insightful. I had plenty of time to revisit all of Austen's work, as well as watch two movies from different decades of each, to really set in some of the major plot elements. As an adult, I have come to appreciate her style, content and humor, much more than I did as a teen. Seeing where Austen lived during several aspects of her life was wonderful and informative, as well as helping to solidify my knowledge of the time period. Each venue was carefully chosen with interesting augmentation, like a creative writing workshop at her house in Acton, lunch in a private library room in Chawton House, and Tea at the Pump Room in Bath. Free time was allotted every day, so we had additional experiences. I so loved getting to know Acton as more than a hotel stay. The coach rides to Winchester and Bath, both provided additional treats of scenery. And it was such a pleasure to meet the other members of the tour, each with their own knowledge and appreciation of Austen, England, and Joan. If you can, GO! I'm a little jealous that there will be some new adventures on next year's tour, but oh so appreciative that I had the chance to go when I did!"
Ann H
