“The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond...

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” ― Plutarch   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday ...

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the t...

“I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of an...

“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” - Catherine the Great   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me ev...

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake u...

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.” ― S.E. Hinton   ...

“The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compass...

“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.” - Vitruvius   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday mem...

“Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting...

“Happy is the man who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean Sea.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis Welcome to the Travel Tuesday me...

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ― John Keats Welc...

“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are ...

“The most beautiful thing about Brazil that I always find that is so unlike any other place I've been in the world is the diversity o...