Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
Eric WeinerThe fastest way to travel is to be there already.
Terry PratchettTags: travel
I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.
Kate KliseTags: travel city in-the-bag kate-klise
They lied, you know,” said Cpl. Allan Richmond. He hugged the
wall next to Owens. Beside him, PFC Bucky Hatton crouched low, a
Browning 1911 semiautomatic gripped tightly in his hand.
“Who?” asked Bart, glad to be out of the wind and rain, even if it
was only for a short time.
“The assholes who said France was beautiful.
Tags: travel
There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.
Amy Elizabeth SmithFlorence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
Hilary MantelTags: travel
This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind.
Hilary MantelTags: travel
Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...
Grace LichtensteinTags: life adventure travel motorcycle
He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that locals did things differently. Others managed to travel so ‘covered and wrapped in a taciturn and incommunicative prudence, defending themselves from the contagion of an unknown atmosphere’ that they noticed nothing at all.
Sarah BakewellTags: nationalism travel quote xenophobia montaigne sarah-bakewell
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.
Paul TherouxTags: experience travel perceptions
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