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Pakistan: And now for a brief interlude

Crossing land borders has always been one of travel’s joys for me. They’re so much more meaningful than crossing some

As travellers, rather than tourists, perhaps, we pride ourselves on scratching beneath the surface and tickling the underbelly of the

With a 2.40am departure, I wasn’t much looking forward to the Tehran to Isfahan leg, but the effort was more

Travelling through Iran these past few days has been like no other experience, like no other country I have visited.

“Nothing is expected of the train passenger. In planes the traveller is condemned to hours in a tight seat; ships

I’m going to have to look into precisely what ‘Geopark protected status’ entails (please do message below if you can

Can I, should I, will I, won’t I?…. Iran has dominated much of the planning and decision making around this

Yesterday was a bad day; the first of the trip. It’s no coincidence that it was the day that Sarah

…two blissful days walking in the Carpathian Mountains, so peaceful. On occasion, lost in my thoughts, it felt like I

…one of those special moments in time. We were 10 hours into a 12 hour journey from Budapest to Brasov.