- “To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!” - Gertru...

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging advers...

--> “The land is my mother. Like a human mother, the land gives us protection, enjoyment, and provides our needs – economic,...

“O sons of the Greeks, go, liberate your country, liberate your children, your women, the seats of your fathers’ gods, and the tombs of y...

    “ ‘Life can’t be all that bad’, I’d think from time to time. ‘Whatever happens, I can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.’ ”...

  “Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.” - Gerald Durrell .   Welcome to the Travel Tu...

  “The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.” – Vincent ...

  “My dream home would be a fishing lodge in New Zealand.” - John Rocha   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and...

  “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things....

  “A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end. But i...

  “We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with wate...

  “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday...