Quotes About Travel

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

We play the contest again, Time Lord.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Cuando siento la comezón de pisar Francia, cruzo la frontera, pido una cerveza o un vino y me lo dan sin tapa, tengo ganas de volver enseguida a casa.

The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.

If you spend a day driving, you travel a long way and see nothing. If you spend a day walking, you travel a short distance but, in compensation, you see every small detail along the way. The efficiency of the bicycle gives you the best of both modes. On a bike, you can travel a long way and see a huge amount. The cyclist experiences both breadth and depth.

IBN FADL?N Ibn Fadl?n and the Land of Darkness Arab Travellers in the Far North Translated with an Introduction by PAUL LUNDE and CAROLINE STONE

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

Nunca llegarás a la Meca, porque te encuentras en el camino a Samarcanda.

Aquello que buscas en tu retiro, yo lo veo claramente en todas las carreteras y caminos.

Temo que nunca llegarás a la Meca, pues estás en el camino hacia el Turquestán.

if there's nowhere to rest at the end how can I get lost on the way?

Cloaks are nice. You can wear a cloak and have nothing on under it at all. And you can go anywhere you want like that!

those lucky enough to have it included in their tours do not soon forget the the graceful, delicate mosaics

London is calling my name and I must listen and direct myself towards this city.

There's a difference between visiting a place and experiencing a place.

Cosmos mariner destination unknown

There is nothing more amusing to Venetians than watching tourists who think the Grand Canal is all there is to Venice.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Jacob was to travel second class. This alone was inexpressibly tragic.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")

of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at