You never know a place until you are ready to leave.

Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.


I guess that can go for luggage as well.>>

to digress further, my favourite lines from that play are these:

"Cecily: Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.

Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different."

to return to the topic, my two both come from phrase books, the first apocryphal the second real:

"my postilion has been hit by lightening"

and from a real but ancient Berlitz spanish phrase book:

"please can you tell me where I may buy some chewing tobacco".

Can you get that case for me? Mrs Rubicund.

In foreign countries, the fools go into the museums, the wise go into the taverns.

(Toren bereisen in fremden Ländern die Museen, Weise gehen in die Tavernen.)

Erich Kästner

The tourist destroys what he is searching for by finding it.

(Der Tourist zerstört, was er sucht, indem er es findet.)

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The last part of Tennyson's "Ulysses" always touches me.

Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.

In foreign countries, the fools go into the museums, the wise go into the taverns.


The next place on the itinerary is the nearest 12 step program.

nice quotes, traveller.

Good to see my favourite Erich Erich Kästner mentioned here.

That second quote of traveller's is so true.

Both are excellent, as are the Samuel Johnson quotes.

Rubicund, you made me laugh.

"Maybe that's what Hell is; all eternity stuck in Bruges."
Ray, the dying assassin "In Bruges."

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

Are we there yet?

And this
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

"In the end what we regret most are the chances we never took" Frazier Crane (with apologies to Mark Twain)

"Don't you love the smell of grease about the engine of a Channel steamer? Isn't there a lot of hope in it?" - Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.” – William Shakespeare

"Avrai tu l'universo, resta l'Italia a me." -- Giuseppe Verdi, Attila

'Not all those who wander are lost' -JRR Tolkein

'Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel belongs to no one' - Erma Bombeck

"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer" UNKNOWN

I have never regretted one $ the Mr. and I have spent on travel.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t 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

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

-Diane Arbus

La vallée de la Dordogne est le sourire de la France.