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1. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. - Mark Twain

2. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

3. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. - Robert Louis Stevenson

4. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

5. All the pathos and irony of leaving onefs youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. - Paul Fussell

6. Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. - Jack Kerouac

7. He who does not travel does not know the value of men. - Moorish proverb

8. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. - Dagobert D. Runes

9. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. - John Steinbeck

10. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. - Lin Yutang

11. Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. - Aldous Huxley

12. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. - Samuel Johnson

13. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson

14. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. - Cesare Pavese

15. Ones destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. - Henry Miller

16. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. - Moslih Eddin Saadi

17. When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we dont know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. - D. H. Lawrence

18. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. - Freya Stark

19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

20. Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard

21. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. - Martin Buber

22. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharial Nehru

23. Tourists dont know where theyve been, travelers dont know where theyre going. - Paul Theroux

24. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. - Bill Bryson

25. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by. - Robert Frost

27. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

28. There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. - Charles Dudley Warner

29. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

30. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. - James Michener

31. The journey not the arrival matters. - T. S. Eliot

32. A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. - Tim Cahill

33. I have found out that there aint no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain

34. Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. - Pat Conroy

35. Not all those who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien

36. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. - Benjamin Disraeli

37. Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. - Maya Angelou

38. Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. - Elizabeth Drew

39. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe - Anatole France

40. Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. - Seneca

41. What youve done becomes the judge of what youre going to do - especially in other peoples minds. When youre traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People dont have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. - William Least Heat Moon

42. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. - Lillian Smith

43. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley

44. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. - Freya Stark

45. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. - Rudyard Kipling

46. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - Paul Theroux

47. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on ones own country as a foreign land. - G. K. Chesterton

48. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. - Clifton Fadiman

49. A wise traveler never despises his own country. - Carlo Goldoni

50. Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. - Mark Jenkins







Travel Blog Posts


Algeciras

Published: May 22nd 2013Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Algeciras
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August 23rd 2012

Back in Algeciras again. I ended up visiting Algeciras 4 times, always in tranist and always unplanned. The first time I arrived in Algeciras was due to the cancellation of ferries crossing the Strait of Gibraltar from Tarifa due to high winds. The second time was because it was the only option to get back to mainland Europe from Ceuta in North Africa. The third time was due to the only bus going in the direction I needed to go in from Puerto de Santa Maria terminating there. The 4th time was another mishap that I will recount in my next entry. Unfortunately it never grew on me, but seeing as I ended up there on four occasions I thought I might as well chuck it on the blog. Apart from being a strategically positioned port ... read more



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August 20th 2012

So after slow cooking in Sevilla I went to El Puerto de Santa Maria to cool down for a few days. I found a camping site very close to the puerto de Santa Maria, where i set up shop for a few days. Whilst there I went for a run along the coastline and caught a Barcelona Real Madrid game. The first day I was there I visited Cadiz and I spent the second day lounging on the beach, before heading off to the next stop. It was a nice, relaxing few days where apart from reading a book I really didnt do much at all...... read more



Cadiz

Published: May 2nd 2013Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Cádiz
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August 20th 2012

Cadiz was a great surprise. I arrived by ferry in the port that was once arguably the most important in the world. Full of history, quaint and appealing, I made the most of my day there, taking in its sights and learning a little of its incredible history. Cadiz is where the first Spanish constitution came into fruition. I visited the museum explaining Spain´s political evolution and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Cadiz may have seen its heyday, but like many spots in Europe one can really feel its history. It´s something that I have come to love and appreciate about Europe. Being immersed in Cadiz´s nooks and crannies for a day was a privilege and a fantastic experience.... read more



Seville and a credit card

Published: April 21st 2013Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Seville
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August 18th 2012

Due to a credit card being swallowed by a bank machine, a random friendship formed while passing through Seville, my bank telling me I needed a permanent address to be able to get a new credit card, not having a permanent address and needing to meet a friend in Valencia, I found myself retracing my steps, back to Seville. Seville is a beautiful place, however unless you really like saunas I don´t suggest travelling there at the height of summer. On arriving I went to the Post shop to pick up my card, as my friend hadn´t been home when the mail had arrived. I then managed to squeak a few days out there, before caving and heading to the beach. 4am with temperatures between 30 and 40 degrees and no beach being the prime motivators ... read more



Faro

Published: April 6th 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Faro
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August 16th 2012

Things didn´t exaclty go swimmingly for me in Faro. I started off sitting outside a hotel for 3 hours, waiting for a friend to arrive, as she hadn´t written my name on the reservation and although things got good in between times, they didn´t exactly end on a high note. In between times though i did mange to eat some sumptuous and very reasonably priced Portuguese tucker, as well as tuck into some very pleasing Portuguese wine and port. I had a couple of Jehovah's witnesses attempt to show me the light, which was fascinating, not least because I managed to understand almost everything. I also visited Faro´s beach which was a good day out...... read more



Salema

Published: March 25th 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve
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August 14th 2012

After I had bade farewell to Chrissy at the bus stop in Salema, I spent a couple of days in the campsite there, the most commercial and big business of the campsites I was to stay at in Portugal. Not lacking in facilities and charging for every extra thing including hot water, you could quite easily find yourself spending a small fortune without ever leaving the campsite. I spent most of my time away from the campsite, enjoying a few days to myself and going on massive walks along the coastline surrounding Salema. Despite being touristy, the Algarve really is a beautiful part of the world. The walks I did there were wonderful and I found some deserted beaches as I got further out that were just stunning. Portugese people have mixed emotions regarding the Algarve. ... read more



Sagres

Published: March 15th 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Sagres
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August 12th 2012

Sagres was once considered the end of the world. It certainly retains that feel and I had a fantastic time there with Chrissy a hulahooping hippi from the States. In Europe travelling around following the summer festivals, she earnt her keep with a hula hoop that puts to shame any other that I have ever seen. Costing over $300 dollars it was like something out of a James Bond labratory, performing all sorts of weird and wacky things that you would never expect from such a plain looking device (by day at least). We camped near Sagres for a few days, in the middle of nowhere, sampling port and taking in a few amazing sunsets. Cape St Vincent has seen itself as the subject of a fair few exotic stories/legends and it is not hard to ... read more



Lagos

Published: March 10th 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos
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August 9th 2012

Lagos was a bit of a shock to the system for me initially. Having just finished travelling around Morocco for nearly a month during Ramadan, arriving in hedonistic Lagos was a world apart. It didn't take me long to get into the swing of things however and I soon found myself talking merrily to whoever crossed my path and on the drop with my old man. Sometimes the gods smile on you and the fact that my dad had arrived in Europe on a trip meant that my French bank's incompetence wasn't going to be anything other than a royal pain in the arse. By the time I caught up with dad I had 20 euro left and still no reply from the French bank that had seen my bank card swallowed in Meknes through their ... read more



Ceuta

Published: February 16th 2013Europe » Spain » Ceuta & Melilla » Ceuta
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August 5th 2012

Ceuta is a Spanish enclave in Morocco. At one point Spain controlled quite a bit of what is now Morocco and Ceuta along with a few other enclaves are what remain. So I took a bus from Chefchauen to get back into Europe. On the way there I met an Italian and a Moroccan who both spoke Spanish really well and I had probably the best conversation I had while in Morocco. Missing a few teeth, full of confidence and a bit rough around the edges, the Moroccan kept me entertained all the way to his village. Carrying live animals and travelling with his father, he explained Morocco and Spain in a unique, comical and honest manner. This was great as it acted as a counterbalance to the stifling heat and overly packed falling to bits ... read more



Overnighter in Seville

Published: March 3rd 2013Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Seville
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August 5th 2012

After looking at the map, I decided I could get to Lagos in Portugal from Chefchauen in one day. After getting on the bus in Chefchauen I realised that I would be lucky to get out of Morocco, let alone arrive in Lagos. As it happened, I got to Seville and on emailing a friend there was lucky enough to get put up at her house for the night. We went out for a few drinks and ate some typical Andalusian tucker. The next morning I took the first bus to Lagos to catch up with my old man.... read more






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