Who is a "discerning traveller"? Are you like that?
a traveller that has good taste and judgement, especially about style and quality
when smth meets your expectations or lives up to them
fulfil your expectations of smth
What is the meaning of "get/go off the beaten track"?
to go to places tourists don't normally go, somewhere different, unusual
To enjoy an experience, activity, or feeling as much as you can and for as long as you can
to savour
to long for smth, to want smth very much
to hanker after smth
to be amazed by smth ( verb and adjective + prepositions should be said)
to marvel at; marvelled at smth
large crowds of people (in a negative way)
hordes of people
to show, prove, or state that smth is true or real
to attest TO smth
paraphrase "this painting looks very like the real person who had been painted"
this painting has a FAITHFUL LIKENESS
This village is surrounded by majestic mountains. Another word for "surrounded by"
flanked by