“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not t...

“Resplendent in the hues of its noble and magnificent past, the historic city of Jaipur stands out as one of the most spectacular and cul...

“Life in Sardinia is probably the best a man can wish: Twenty-four-thousand kilometers of forests, countryside, shores immersed in a mira...

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” - Heraclitus   Welcome to the Trav...

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.” - Samuel Johnson Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me ...

“A friendly word is better than a heavy cake.” – Ukrainian Proverb   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and show...

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous p...

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” - Aristotle   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday...

“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have a...

“To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.” - Emilia Wickstead   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me...

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.”― Artur Schnabel ...

“God worked six days, and rested on the seventh: Madrileños rest the six, and on the seventh... go to the bullfight.” - H O’Shea   Welc...

“The centre of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilisation.” ...

“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its...

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to lov...

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles Welcome to t...

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)   I am...