WritingRoad

Alongside ‘Is it safe?’ and ‘Why?’, the most common question I’ve been asked since booking my trip to Iran is ‘What will you wear?’ It’s not a new conundrum. In fact, it’s one faced by many a girl trying to ‘travel light’. This time however, my fears go a lot further than pure vanity or indecisiveness.

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…I miss it. The travel writing that is. My days as editor of Real Travel feel like a long time ago, despite being just 12 months since I left. It may have taken a year – and trips to Thailand, Croatia, France and Laos – for the novelty of not writing about my latest travels to wear off. But I’m ready to make my come back.

In short, I’m bored of the day job. So I have decided to write a blog.

So here it is! My intrepid adventure into the not-so-new-anymore world of blogging. Sending my words into the virtual world for anyone to read. And I couldn’t have chosen a better time to start, because it takes my mind of the waiting.

What am I waiting for, you say? It’s the same impatient excitement that every traveller experiences at one time or another – I am waiting for an all-important document to arrive: my visa. But this one is slightly different. This time my excitement is edged with apprehension. The question isn’t so much ‘When will it arrive?’ as ‘Will it?’

And if it does arrive, will I really be heading towards the unknown territory – at least by anyone that I know – of Iran?