Inspiring Travel Writing from Philip Marsden: Page 2 of 2

Notes From Istanbul | Philip Marsden | Turkey | Marmara | Istanbul
Not much more than three hours from London in a plane, Istanbul offers the sense of being somewhere much more distant. There are many good reasons to visit - as a stepping stone to exploring the great expanses of Anatolia, the Grand Bazaar, the food...

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South-east Turkey | Philip Marsden | Turkey | Eastern Anatolia | Malatya
We are three buses, a convoy of brand-new comfort-wagons from the Zafer factory in Malatya. With our police escort we are bowling across the hot and beautiful plains of South-eastern Turkey. We are air-conditioned, watered, tead-and-coffeed by our...

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Spring in Cornwall | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom | Devon and Cornwall | Cornwall
For fourteen years, off and on, I have spent the spring on the south coast of Cornwall, in the heliotropic village of St Mawes. Only once have I seen out a full summer here, many autumns I have been away, but to date I have missed only two springs....

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The Best of Cornwall | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom | Devon and Cornwall | Cornwall
What's happened to Cornwall? All we hear about nowadays are the clever things Rick Stein does with fish, the visionary success of the Eden Project, the ultimate teenage resort of Rock and the discreet chic of Hotel Tresanton. What ever became of...

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