During these unprecedented times, we’re all craving a little adventure. Even though we can’t pack up our bags and hop on a flight, we can follow in the footsteps of many adventurers from the comfort of the couch. Some of the greatest novels by infamous writers like J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Jack Kerouac were written with a hot cuppa at literary cafes around the world.

Expand your reading list with these 10 cafes across the globe. Grab the books that were inspired by the French doors of Parisian cafes, we see you The Great Gatsby. You can’t forget about the Scottish cafe that Rowling herself wrote the first of the Harry Potter series. You don’t need a travel authorization to take a literary trip inspired by these cafes.