"little excursion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used as a reference to a short, leisurely trip. For example, "We took a little excursion last weekend to a nearby town and had an enjoyable time."
"We all took a little excursion," she recalled.
And fun, we have to admit, is clearly the only reason behind this little excursion.
But this year, save for a little excursion across the Alps into Italy, it's gone all Franco-navel-gazing.
After a fun, productive day on the dock, I headed back to campus, refreshed and in an amazing mood from my little excursion that had also proved productive!
If this little excursion was a show of force, it was not because Iran had launched a satellite but, rather, because the regime was no longer even trying to mask its coercive nature.
No people but the British, we imagine could preserve the myth of kingship so solemnly; no other nationa, faced with the hard immediate fact of dissolution would have taken time out for this little excursion into fantasy.
"You'd sort of have to see her between her little excursions," Carol Naiman said.
"We bring her over to our place on Sundays for dinner and take her out on little excursions," Mr. Ferrero said.
Of particular interest is when eyes are saccading – making twitchy little excursions back and forth over an area of interest as the mind builds a mental image of an object.
Make little excursions outside your comfort zone daily or at the very least weekly, otherwise you will stagnate and that would be a mistake.
Exercises at the end of each chapter provide practice and vary from easy yet interesting applications of the treated theory, to little excursions into related topics.
