Leon Dolphin
1. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. - Mark TwainDolphin7
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
January 5th 2012
. Kosovo - Pristina It took longer than anticipated to get to Pristina, so by the time I got there it was well after nightfall. Back on my own again and completely without my bearings, I opted to take a taxi to get to the hostel/hotel I had found on the internet. I checked in to the hotel, where I talked to the owner for a bit about Kosovo and its politics. He was Albanian/muslim and it was interesting to hear his perspective as I had previously only talked to Serbians about what went on there. Needless to say his perspective was different to the Serbian perspectives I had heard which all differed from one another in themselves and all of the perspectives put together varied from the perspectives that I had been exposed to via ... read more
January 2nd 2012
Tirana Albania's capital, we arrived at Tirana at 3am as this was the only time we could arrive, with the only bus scheduled from Skopje to Tirana being scheduled with an arrival time of 3am - while I couldn't figure out the logic of it at the time, I imagine it has something to do with the border crossing. Once there, we set off to find our next hostel, but as it was 3am, we didn't have much luck, with the first hostel we had jotted down shut for the night and the second one unfindable. With a lot of what seemed like shady characters cruising around in very expensive cars, stray dogs menacing the streets and rough looking people about, our nerve held out until the point where a car pulled up next to us ... read more
December 31st 2011
Skopje I arrived in Skopje at around 11pm. I had written down where I was supposed to go, but had managed to loose the piece of paper. This turned out to be a big problem as the bus station didn't have any internet cafe. Eventually I managed to find a tourist agency with internet and managed to convince the reluctant and wary worker to let me use her internet, after our attempt at communication had failed. So I scribbled down the address again and then after failing in my attempt to find the hostel on foot, I hailed down a taxi driver who accepted the one or two remaining euros I had, even though it is not the currency in Macedonia. This only got me a skip, hop and a jump from the hostel however and ... read more
Thessaloniki
Published: April 25th 2012Europe » Greece » Central Macedonia » Thessaloniki » Agios AthanasiosDecember 30th 2011
Thessaloniki Originally I had planned to spend some time in Thessaloniki . As it happened, on one hour's sleep, I found myself in a mad scramble to get to there from Athens in order to try to get the last train to Skopje, my new year's destination and where I was to meet my friend Andrew who had made his way there from Sophia, Bulgaria. I was completely hung over and I really don't know how I did it, but I managed to get to -Thessaloniki somehow. Despite the fact all the trains were booked for the day and hence untakeable with security monitoring possible overloading overloaders, and inspite of the fact that it took me an hour and a half to find the magical bus stop in the middle of loonyland that was to be ... read more
December 29th 2011
... Temple of Poseidon The temple for the god of the sea and everything in it is situated in a pretty idylic spot. I spent two days trying to get to Poseidon. The first time with an American girl, failed, we ended up spending half the day on local buses going around in circles. As fate would have it, there was a second time a few days later when I was supposed to go there with a crew of 4-5 people I had met. Unfortunately the ordeal of changing my travellers cheque in Athens lasted approximately 3 and a half hours. The last time I will use a travellers cheque while travelling, I hope. So I missed being at the departure point at the time we had organised. I decided to go anyway and finally I ... read more
December 28th 2011
While in Athens, we did a day trip to Delphi. Ancient Greeks believed that Delphi's famous oracle could tell them what fate had in store for them. Legend would have it that Apollo the god of the oracle would speak through Pythia, his priest, who would in turn speak to whatever priest happened to be on shift, who would in turn speak to the pilgrim seeking Apollo's wisdom. Ancient greeks believed that Apollo knew everything, including what had happened in the past and what would happen in the future. The priests who talked to Pythia, who in turn talked to Apollo, became rather powerful diplomats/counsellors with many a VIP seeking Apollo's knowledge before waging wars or starting major projects. At the temple itself it was written 'Know thyself' with the connotation being that one should never ... read more
December 25th 2011
Athens Going to Athens on Christmas Eve was an interesting way to spend Christmas. The flight was suprisingly full and business as usual. I flew with Aegean a Greek airline, which had an interesting and sobering editorial on the crisis currently facing Greece. To be honest I was at the same time a little bit uneasy and fascinated by the trip to Greece. I have a facebook friend who had been posting revolutionary material on facebook over the previous few months and on arriving in Greece I was half expecting to find myself in Armageddon. Maybe there was a cease fire for Christmas, but in any case after hanging out with a Turkish guy for an hour or so and searching for my hostel in the early hours of the morning, I retired safely and soundly ... read more
December 10th 2011
Strasbourg So with it being Christmas and all, I decided to go to Strasbourg, which is the most well known town in France for its Christmas markets. Having enjoyed the Christmas markets in Germany so much in the past, I decided to give France's a go. I used covoiturage to get there and set off to meet a friend of mine living there. We spent the morning walking around the Christmas markets. I ate some of the german influenced specialties of the area -choucroute , some crepes and had some vin chaud . After that I said goodbye to my friend who was madly studying for university exams and did a city tour. Strasbourg has been under German and French hands over time and the german influence is still very strong in Strasbourg today, with a ... read more
November 14th 2011
Montreuil So my second place of abode in Paris, was in a place called Montreuil which is actually not considered part of Paris as it is not 'intra muros' and is classified as a banlieue or suburb in English. What this meant in real terms, was that I lived at the last stop on Paris' metro line 9, which runs from Montreuil all the way through Paris to Point Sevres. It was a good place to live, a nice apartment where I was able to sleep properly and just a hop and a skip away from Bois de Vincennes, a great park where I went for a good few runs . The suburb has an interesting reputation and history and I got some interesting reactions on telling people where I lived. Today, Montreuil is a multicultural ... read more
November 12th 2011
So on a Friday night after work, we set off for Brugge. It took us longer to get out of Paris then it did to drive to Brugge which actually isn't that far away. But due to the traffic we arrived at our hostel around midnight. We got straight into sampling Belgian beer and kicked off the weekend on a good note. The next morning we hired a couple of bikes and rode to Holland. A nice ride along some country roads and bicycle lanes. In Holland we had lunch and refreshed, then we rode back to Belgium, but this time along the coast. We took in some parks and a few port towns and then decided to try and find the way back to Brugge. Unfortunately this was harder and longer than what we had ... read more
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