Inspiring Travel Writing from Jeremy Seal
Jeremy Seal was born in 1962. He writes travel books and contributes regularly to the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Australian and other publications. He has also appeared on Radio 4's 'Excess Baggage'.
He writes extensively about Turkey, the Middle East, on walking and hiking worldwide, and on travelling with children. He is the author of four acclaimed travel books: A Fez of the Heart; Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book of the Year 1996, The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels Among Serpents, The Wreck at Sharpose Point, and Santa: A Life. These titles have been translated into Spanish, Italian and German and have also been published in the US.
He lives in Bath with his wife and daughter.
He writes extensively about Turkey, the Middle East, on walking and hiking worldwide, and on travelling with children. He is the author of four acclaimed travel books: A Fez of the Heart; Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book of the Year 1996, The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels Among Serpents, The Wreck at Sharpose Point, and Santa: A Life. These titles have been translated into Spanish, Italian and German and have also been published in the US.
He lives in Bath with his wife and daughter.
Articles by Jeremy Seal
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Before You Die: A Ruined Armenian city
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Jeremy Seal
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Turkey
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Kars
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Ani
Ani, Eastern Turkey. A ruined Armenian city, which stands in No Man's Land on Turkey's border with Armenia. Ani is among the greatest examples of medieval architecture in the Near East, but what truly stirs the soul is its remote and earthquake-...
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Before You Die: The Royal Hotel, Levuka
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Jeremy Seal
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Fiji
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Ovalau
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Levuka
The Royal Hotel, Levuka, Ovalau, Fiji. A delightfully old-fashioned and idiosyncratic hostelry straight from the pages of Somerset Maugham in Fiji's original capital, now a lazy backwater with a strong colonial legacy - and lots of snooker tables....
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Before You Die: The most sublime of all Islamic cities
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Jeremy Seal
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Iran
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Esfahan Region
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Esfahan
Isfahan, Iran. The most sublime of all Islamic cities, Isfahan's mosques, palaces, squares and bridges are far more impressive even than those of fabled Samarkand in Uzbekistan. The Orient of our dreams often seems an illusion, but it comes close in...
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Irish Munros
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Jeremy Seal
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United Kingdom
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East Anglia
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Ipswich
On the three-hour hike up Lugnaquilla, the domed granite highpoint of Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, we saw more deer than people. Wilderness indicators such as this, a telling measure of upland walking, increasingly seem a thing of the past in...
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Iran
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Jeremy Seal
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Iran
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Tehran Region
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Tehran
“The drinks service is now closing,” announced the steward. He somehow resisted add-libbing an ironic “forever”; BA 103 was starting its descent towards Tehran, capital of the Islamic - and alcohol-free - Republic of Iran....
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Resting up in Batumi
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Jeremy Seal
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Turkey
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Black Sea
On the Black Sea shingle at Sarpi, there were deckchairs at 1 lari a pop, a statutory pedalo plodding by and a beach hawker crucified by the pink rubber rings slung along the shoprails of his arms. We had come here, ten kilometres south of Batumi,...
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Cycling in Ireland
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Jeremy Seal
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Ireland
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Galway, Mayo & Connemara
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Galway
Ireland is home to legendary bicycling names like Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche and even hosted the Tour de France as recently as 1998, but increasing numbers of a less committed breed of pedaller are now beginning to appreciate the Republic's two-...
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Before You Die: Southwest Coastal Path, Hartland
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Jeremy Seal
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United Kingdom
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Devon and Cornwall
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Hartland
Southwest Coastal Path, Hartland, Devon. Some of the best and least known walking paths in the British Isles. Jeremy Seal
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Before You Die: A Spectacular Campsite
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Jeremy Seal
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Bay of Islands
Whangaruru North Head, Northland, New Zealand. The most spectacular of New Zealand's many wonderful camping sites lies just south of the Bay of Islands on North Island. Visit in a campervan, New Zealand's leisure transport of choice. We picked...
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Sinop
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Jeremy Seal
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Turkey
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Black Sea
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Sinop
Ever since Ankara, the bus had bristled with raised Turkish eyebrows. Somebody eventually double-checked my ticket. "Sinop!" the man exclaimed, slapping his thigh. "He's going to Sinop." And the entire bus dissolved into laughter. Be warned;...