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Travelling to Iran, a country of over 2,500 years of written history and organised civilisation, can be the experience of a lifetime.Travelling to Iran, a country of over 2,500 years of written history and organised civilisation, can be the experience of a lifetime.

The good news for those planning to travel to Iran is that Iranian cuisine is superb. A wide range of influences from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, Europe and the Middle East have created a diverse and relatively healthy range of dishes that focus on fresh produce and aromatic herbs.

I may be living in Barbados, which is over 3000 miles from my homeland of Scotland, but I still have a strong desire to travel and explore new lands.  But due to work and the desire to build up a successful business, I will for the  foreseeable future  just have to dream about the many new places that I look forward to visiting.

Because I’m now living in the Caribbean region I plan on over the next few years visiting as many of the islands over here as  I can, such as Dominica, St Lucia, Trinidad, Bahamas, Turks & Cacaos and many more.

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The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely GUlf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher, and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking.

Sea of Cortez is a book to be read and remembered on two levels. It is a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements… More >>

Travel books are extremely diverse. Some are barely identifiable as travel writing. Gerald Durrell is thought of as an eccentric naturalist but in fact his books are engaging books on travel with a special focus on animal life. The kinds of travel literature, or indeed travel writers, can be broadly categorized. Top of the list are travel writers who are travelers by occupation and writers by profession. Three such writers are Paul Theroux, William Least Heat-Moon and Bill Bryson. It is probably no surprise that writers in this sub-genre are often short-tempered about travel and indeed the act of travel writing. More writers in this category are Jan Morris and Eric Newby. Once again there is a cross-over, because Morris is known as an historian and Newby as a novelist. It seems as soon as you write anything other than travelogues you have lost your purity!