Quotes About Travel

I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.

You came for a romantic weekend to Paris. In your flip-flops.

I ate new foods, walked strange streets, spoke to people in a language that wasn't mine.

My skin grew freckled, my nails bleached, and I began to feel a rare happiness at the simple pleasures of existing here – of walking on a beach, eating unfamiliar foods, swimming in warm, clear water where black fish gazed shyly from under volcanic rocks, or watching the sun sink fiery red into the horizon.

que aquellos que viajábamos lejos de casa siempre tendríamos el corazón en dos sitios.

I've had a very good life, Louisa. I loved my job and I worked with some wonderful people. I traveled to Paris, Milan, Berlin, London, far more than most women my age...I had my beautiful apartment and some excellent friends. You mustn't worry about me. All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make difficult choices. But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a box I'd needed to tick on a list.

No two months had ever left me feeling more inadequate. I was lonely almost all the time. I hated not knowing where I was going to sleep each night, was permanently anxious about train timetables and currency, found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And what could I say about myself, anyway? When people asked me, I could give them only the most cursory details. All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone.

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Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone.

Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a box I'd needed to tick on a list. - Lou Clark

we who traveled far from home would always have our hearts in two places.

felt oddly ashamed at how little I had really explored New York.

Nowhere is far...You are in Paris! - Fabien

Shit travels a long way, but wherever it lands it smells the same. - Colonel Franklin Brickland

with Ernestito riding on the front of his father's saddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, a wooden launch with a four-berth cabin that Ernesto had built at the Astillero San Isidro. Once, they traveled upriver to the famous Iguazú falls, where the Argentine and Brazilian borders meet, and watched the clouds of vapor rise from the brown cascades that roar down from the virgin jungle cliffs.

TRAVEL IS FATAL TO PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY AND NARROW-MINDEDNESS… BROAD, WHOLESOME, CHARITABLE VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS CANNOT BE ACQUIRED BY VEGETATING IN ONE LITTLE CORNER OF THE EARTH ALL ONE'S LIFE. —MARK TWAIN

I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

Heck, I remember that I used to dress up to take an airplane flight; today, it looks homeless people fill up the planes.

On the hop from Manchester to New York, she and Bill settled into adjoining seats at the front of the jet. They fell asleep, her head on his shoulder and his head propped against hers.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Oslo, Paris, Damascus . . . Oslo, Paris, Berlin, Damascus? If this was a game, he wasn't even on the playing field. He