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.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or read more

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other read more

The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more

Your true traveller 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.

Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.

Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.

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.