caravansarai

• “Will you state, again, that they misrepresented themselves to you when you first met them at the caravansarai in Sarida.”

  Spirit Gate

• “The arrival of such caravans was the principal event which varied the life of Roystonians in the last century, for was not the Talbot a very caravansarai for”

  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

• “The Russian peasant at once invites me to his menzil in the caravansarai; and although he looks, if anything, a trifle more indifferent about personal cleanliness than either a Turkish or Persian peasant, I have no alternative but to accept his well-meant invitation.”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “Ahwan is remembered as a place where the keen, raw wind seems to come whistling gleefully and yet maliciously from all points of the compass, seemingly centring in the caravansarai itself; these winds render any attempt to kindle a fire a dismal failure, resulting in smoke and watery eyes.”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “The few Persian travellers in the caravansarai and the villagers come flocking around as usual to worry me about riding the bicycle, but the servants drive them away in short order.”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “There are at the caravansarai a number of travellers, among them a moujik of the Don, travelling to Teheran and beyond in company with a Tabreez”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah.”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “Katoum-abad consists of a small mud village and a half-ruined brick caravansarai; in one of the rooms of the latter we find”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “About three p.m. I arrive at the caravansarai of Ahwan, a dreary, inhospitable place in an equally dreary, inhospitable country.”

  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

• “From the street, indeed, it is hardly visible, for it lies within the threshold of a caravansarai or fandak, in which beasts are tethered, goods accumulated and travellers housed, and of which the general appearance is that of a neglected farm-yard.”

  Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond

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