When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Not all those who wander are lost.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey…
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.