In the spirit of inspirational travel, today’s guest post is about safari holidays with children. Thanks to RachelsRomeWritings for providing these great tips! Safari holidays are a fantastic family holiday option, offering a stimulating mix of activities to capture children’s imagination and expand their horizons. With sand dunes and exciting wildlife galore, it’s a superb [...]
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Euphorbia, tenacious and growing recklessly on the lower reaches of the steep hillsides by the side of the road, leaves glaring green in this dry, mountainous desert heat. Allium, like over-sized purple dandelion seed-heads, a border of color looking completely out of place in this forbidding landscape. Nothing left in shorn fields of recently cut [...]
It was almost 11pm at night when Murph and I left the tiny ticket office on the main street in Sanandaj, Iraq. We walked back out into a throng of people still bustling about doing their shopping in the warm evening. (These things are related by the way, in Iran in July it’s so ferociously [...]
Samarkand . Alexander the Great described the beauty of this city in 329BC. The famous Chinese explorer Xuan Zang remarked on it as a center of international trade and artistry in the 7th century AD. There are operas, poems and plays about Tamerlane, the man who made Samarkand his capital. The imposing mosques, madrassas and [...]
