Inspiring Travel Writing About Exploring: Page 2 of 27

"I was tired. Exhausted. Ready to flop. I'd arrived in Zarabad, a sweet secluded village north of Tehran, with sleep rather than sightseeing on my mind. But in Iran, a land of soft light, poetic description and elegiac landscapes, the offer of a dusk..."

"A discreet footpath veered off the lane beyond the village of Holford. It led through beech trees to a secret, dappled place; a wooden bridge which crossed a deep gorge seamed by tumbling waterfalls..."

"The Highland dawn began to show somewhere beyond Bridge of Orchy – some 60,000 footsteps in, some 40,000 more to go - backlighting 1074-metre Ben Dorian in vermilion. At least, I think it was vermilion... "

"I had always thought of Maisons-Laffitte as a bourgeois residential suburb probably not worth exploring. But a local’s recommendation and its easy access by train decided me to try it with a friend one Sunday – and proved me wrong..."