Inspiring Travel Writing About Off the Beaten Track: Page 2 of 17

"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..."

"The sign in the car park bids me ‘Lucky Drive’ as I leave Rila Monastery. I’m only a few hours into my Bulgarian fly-drive break, but I’ve already seen enough of the country’s roads to take the message seriously... "

"I had always thought of the residential 16th arrondissement as one of the most boring districts in Paris, until I discovered the Sentier Nature by chance while hurrying to a doctor’s appointment..."

"The exterior of the sculpture (a term used to describe the house by Bruno as well as several other artists and critics) has been typified as a “metal pig” or, more usually, as a “spaceship”."