Inspiring Travel Writing About Cities: Page 3 of 35

"Known as ‘the island of Aphrodite because legend says that the Greek Goddess of Love rose from the sea here in a scallop shell, Cyprus, which was already inhabited in 3700 BC, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited islands in the world..."

"Overlooking a bend of the Seine to the west of Paris, the 988-acre Parc Saint Cloud is relatively unknown to foreign visitors. It was designed by Le Nôtre for a vanished château completed in 1690 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for ‘Monsieur’, the younger..."

"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..."

"The frenzied pace of life in London together with the British penchant for, well, languishing, has seen the city assailed by not a few newfangled spas. "