We all love travel writing clichés. Pick up any reputable travel publication, online magazine or blog, and you’ll find they are littered with words which have become strongly aligned with travel writing that we have often forgotten their original meaning. Perched and Nestled have dominated the travel writing scene for so long that every time [...]

Walking along the shores of Lake Como, you are reminded of the tranquillity that permeates your senses. Here in Lenno, the small town that dots the west side of the lake, the pace is unhurried and languid, particularly when the sun begins to cast long shadows of your steps in the late afternoon. The stately [...]

You could watch the muted colours darken or the moored boats nod gently over rippled waters… – Photograph taken in the town of Lenno.