I've always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don't sleep - some don't - but they live there. Everybody else is just a tourist.
Venice, Italy, for instance, pulls in a millions tourists for their own Carnival season but the actual local population is only a couple of hundred thousand. Lots of empty canals and streets at night, especially when you get away from the big hotels, and the residents pretty much have it to themselves when tourist season slows during the winter.
Jude has character - everybody agrees on that. It also has that thing I like best about a city: You can never own it, but it you treat it with respect it will eventually invite you in and make you one of its true citizens. But like I said, you've got to live there. If you're never around after the bars close, or at the other end of the night as the early workers get up to start another day and the coffee shops and news agents raise their security gates, then you don't really know the place, do you?
Мне хотелось путешествовать неофициально, не приехать и "осматривать", а жить и смотреть на всё, не насилуя наблюдательности; не задавая себе утомительных уроков осматривать ежедневно, с гидом в руках, по стольку-то улиц, музеев, зданий, церквей. От такого путешествия остаётся в голове хаос улиц, памятников, да и то ненадолго. Вообще, большая ошибка - стараться собирать впечатления; соберёшь чего не надо, а что надо, то ускользнёт.
Если путешествуешь не для специальной цели, нужно, чтобы впечатления нежданно и незванно сами собирались в душу; а к кому они так не ходят, тот лучше не путшествуй.
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You're not traveling if you already know everything.
Erica BauermeisterTags: knowledge adventure travel
See it, learn it, do it ALL.
Jamie McCallTags: adventure travel self-help actresses lifestyle author veterans spiritual-growth law-of-attraction loa navy adventurer high-life
The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered:
'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!
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Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:
The sages who have compassed sea and land,
Their secret to search out and understand,
My mind misgives me if they ever solve
The scheme on which the universe is planned.
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
Tahir ShahTags: writing travel india bombay
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.
Ian FrazierIt reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there.
Ian FrazierTags: travel russia siberia baikal
Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of a portfolio: a scene of the gondolas moored by the railway station; the Grand Canal in twilight; the Rialto bridge; the Piazza San Marco; the shimmering, rippling wonderland; the bustling water traffic; the fish market; the Lido beach and boardwalk; Teeny in the launch; the singing, gesturing gondoliers; the bourgeois tourists drinking coffee at Florian’s; the importunate beggars; the drowned girl’s ghost haunting the Bridge of Sighs; the pigeons, mosquitoes and fetor of decay.
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