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Tag Archives: Travel Quotes
Weekly Travel Quote
Travel quote: Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. Continue reading
In flight emergency: no more pretzels
Houston Chronicle quotes Matthew Stone from Global Postmark about Continental airlines removing free pretzels from domestic flights. Continue reading
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Tagged airline food, airlines, houston chronicle, travel, Travel Quotes
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Weekly Travel Quote
Patricia Storace considers paradise in this week’s travel quote. Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
“I like thinking that perhaps this is how we should always travel, without foresight or answers, adventitiously, with faith as our compass.” Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
Guy de Maupassant speaks of Venice in today’s travel quote. Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
In today’s travel quote, Adam Gopnik describes the two types of travelers. Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, paris, travel, Travel Books, Travel Quotes
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Bill Bryson is funny
Bill Bryson hits the spot with Notes From a Small Island, one of the top travel books of all time. Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Travel Books
Tagged Book Review, england, Europe, Travel Books, Travel Quotes
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The Ugly American in Italy, ca. 1950
This passage is taken from the 1955 travel book American In Italy, which I have previously reviewed. It could have been written yesterday: I first heard of the two women from St. Louis from a bellboy who told me they had hung their laundry on the chandelier. When the manager discovered it had washed off the decorations he tried to make them pay.
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Tagged Europe, Italy, Travel Quotes
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Weekly Travel Quote
I pull over once in a while and let them scream past. They don’t know what they’re missing. Or, if they do, they’ve become numb to it. A sad thing. Continue reading
Happy New Year Quote
New Year’s Travel Quote: The world will end some day, on somebody’s calendar, one way or another. But until then, let’s go drink a mai tai on the beach with someone we love and get our belly buttons pierced. Hell, it’s about time. Continue reading