…I’m momentarily transfixed, torn between curiosity and fear. I can pull it up the gently sloping mud bank, but then what? Already thought is lagging behind events, as the blotchy brown mass slides up wet...

If there is a pandemic, international travel will almost cease I suspect for a significant period of time.

Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and...

It is infectious between people and it quickly became the first global pandemic of this century, mainly due to global travel.

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that’s the joy of living and...

The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

I keep going backas if Im looking for something I have lostback to the motherland, sisterland, fatherlandback to the beacon, the breastthe smell and taste of the breeze,and the singing of the rain.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence...

And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their ancient homes; and this is like a fragment of their song,...

I began to realize that I could go wherever and whenever I dreamed.

Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Nulla dietro di me, tutto avanti, è sempre così sulla strada…

To shut your eyes is to travel.

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

It was a fine feeling indeed to be standing up there like that, with the sound of summer all around one and a light breeze on one’s face. And I believe it was then, looking...

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. […] I’d seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it...

There, Clover found the “gardens and great trees and old cottages…so beautiful” that seeing them exhausted her. It was as if, she joked with her husband, “this English world is a huge stage-play got up...

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between...

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Most folks in Skaneateles don’t get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don’t get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

Hoping to apply what few marketable skills I’d acquired in school, I used my undergraduate’s Hebrew to check into options in Israel. I was eager to travel, open to adventure, but as a non-Jew, I...

The kind of travel I do is a reaction to that. Instead of going to meet gorillas or Bhutan, I prefer to go [my own way] and do things the wealthy wouldn’t dare to do.

I thought that I must always search for the remarkable combinations, add unknowns, mix things that were clearly marked with things beyond marking. I would leave the simulated test and enter into forbidden territory. I...

Selection of the staff travel system was crucial since it would be one of the few applications to be used by every single employee of the airline around the globe. We are impressed with the...

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Tak jak przed telewizorem umiera wiara w drugiego człowieka, tak w podróży ta wiara powraca. Podróżowanie zwraca nam życie. Zabiera nas do istoty rzeczy, zabiera nas w przeszłość, do czasów, gdy to nie współzawodnictwo rządziło...

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

…Don’t insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

No, there’s going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I’ll be able to die happy, for I...

When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

As anyone who’s ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country – a very different world – and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it...

Looking back on the travel industry since 9/11 and to see where we are now and what we’re poised to do, it’s a very good feeling.

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread...

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Humboldt’s early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject’s extraordinary curiosity as follows: ‘1) The knowledge of the Earth and...

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one’s own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a...

Khi mỗi chuyến đi là một sự trở về với nội t m, một sự nhận biết mình và con đường nối với thế giới. Tình cảm thế gian ở đ u cũng như nhau...