Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way!


Nick - I also will have fun reading Paula's travelblog.

"The mythic quest [for the perfect pint of a great beer] is more about the quest itself than it is about the object of the quest. The mythic quest is really a voyage of self-discovery, and it is therefore about the things we discover and the pints we drink along our journey. It is about the places where we go in our search for that perfect pint, and those with whom we share that experience on life's cold and windy days" (Bill Yenne, The 250-Year Quest for the Perfect Pint)

As a sesquipedalian stylist, he can throw a word like 'eponymous" into a sentence without missing a beat.
-- Campbell Patty, "The sand in the oyster", The Horn Book Magazine, May 15, 1996

"In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, self-indulgent, and passing from one scene to another, brilliant or miserable makes no difference. Did the traveler, doing no observable work, freely moving among settled, serious people, get a pang of conscience? I told myself that my writing - this effort of observation - absolved me from any guilt; but of course that was just a feeble excuse. This was pleasure. No guilt, just gratitude." (Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules)

Number of hits to this travelblog:

1st May 2008: 4,802
Most popular (up to entry #35) -
#22 Paula writes about The Great Wall and Terracotta Warriors
#13 Nick writes about the east coast of Brazil
#21 Nick writes about Beijing

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