“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who c...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row.” - Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918) Welcome to the Travel Tuesday ...

“Nowhere in the world have I encountered a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The Cup astonishes me....

“More real depravity, more shocking wickedness, more undisguised vice and immorality is to be witnessed at midday in the most public thoroug...

“Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.” - Janine di Giovanni     Welcome to the Travel ...

Bangkok is a rejuvenating tonic; the people seem to have found the magic elixir. Life, a visitor feels, has not been wasted on the Thais. – ...

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.” ― Marcel Proust   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday and sh...

- “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...