Take The World On Foot

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your […]

The Glory Of Foreign Travel

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old […]

Instinct For Preservation

“Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe” – Bill Bryson | Travel Quote of the Day

See Things While You Still Can

“Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can” – Bill Bryson

They Seem To Have That Light In Australia

“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with […]

If The Mattress Stains Were Anything To Go By

“I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations” – Bill Bryson

What is it About Maps?

“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..” – Bill Bryson

Experience Everyday Things for the First Time

“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