No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself read more

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or read more

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become read more

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots read more

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.