15 stories, 25 fun facts, 44 quotes on this page. It covers Equator, England, Belgium and Netherlands, France, Turkey, USA and 10 other places. Page 2 of 2.
15 stories, 25 fun facts, 44 quotes on this page. It covers Equator, England, Belgium and Netherlands, France, Turkey, USA and 10 other places. Page 2 of 2.
Every country page collects its entries in one place, with a fact sheet and the guides for going there.
In an age of speed, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow.
We met on a bus and travelled together for nine days. Neither of us suggested it and neither of us mentioned when it would end.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.
The line passes through thirteen nations, including Ecuador, Kenya, Indonesia and Brazil.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Do not plan the last day. Go back to the one place you liked most and do exactly the same thing again.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
GPS uses a reference meridian about 100 metres east of the brass line at Greenwich, due to a different geodetic model.
What we get by achieving our goals is not as important as what we become by achieving them.
Around 44 countries have no sea access, and two of them are surrounded entirely by other landlocked states.
He who would travel happily must travel light.
The strangest part is the supermarket. Forty kinds of bread and nobody making eye contact, and you standing there wondering why it feels rude.
If you want to build a ship, teach people to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
In Baarle the border weaves through houses and cafes, with tiles marking which country your table is in.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The Arbez hotel sits on the France-Switzerland border, with the line running through rooms and a staircase.
The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books, because it resists us.
Not the carving or the magnet. A bus ticket with a date on it, found in a coat pocket in February, worth more than everything on the shelf.
Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.
Runners in the Istanbul Marathon cross from Asia into Europe partway through the race.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Mill Ends Park measures about 60 centimetres across and is officially recognised as the smallest city park.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
We asked for the recipe and were given a list of ingredients with no quantities. It took eleven attempts and it still is not right, which is the correct outcome.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going.
Giethoorn's centre is reached only by canal or footbridge, with over 170 small bridges.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
The best moment of the trip has no picture. Everyone was holding something, or eating, or laughing, and by the time anyone thought of a camera it was over.
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity.
Venetian addresses use a sestiere and a number that can run into the thousands, which is why locals navigate by landmark.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Most Japanese addresses describe blocks rather than streets, working from ward down to building number.
The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn't even think to ask.
The cafe was a phone shop and the owner had moved to another city. The view from the bridge was exactly the same and that was somehow enough.
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. But that's okay. The journey changes you.
Washington, Canberra, Brasilia, Ottawa and Ankara were all chosen over larger rivals to settle regional disputes.
If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel as far and as widely as possible.
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realise the world to be.
Bangkok's ceremonial name holds the Guinness record for the longest place name in the world.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life you leave marks behind, however small.
Slower days, earlier dinners, more sitting down. We saw about a third as much and remember roughly twice as clearly.
Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.
Despite that number, a small handful of hubs handle a disproportionate share of global connections.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
On city-centre to city-centre journeys under about four hours, high-speed rail usually wins on total travel time.
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel.
Three days of feeling conspicuous, then a switch flips and you realise nobody is looking, and you can do absolutely anything you like.
Let your memory be your travel bag.
Global ferry travel accounts for billions of passenger journeys a year, more than commercial aviation in some regions.
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
Half the price, a third of the people, and the weather does what it likes. Two out of three is a very good trade.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
In the 1960s a double-decker ran from London to Calcutta, a journey of about 50 days.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
A handful of freighter lines sell cabins to travellers who prefer weeks at sea to hours in the air.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly for newer and richer experience.
Late September on a Mediterranean island: warm sea, empty beaches and every restaurant owner has time to talk. Nobody tells you this because they want to keep it.
Travel far enough and you will find that the strangest thing about strangers is how quickly they stop being strange.
Recreational camping was popularised in the early 1900s by Thomas Hiram Holding, who wrote the first camper's handbook.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.
Karl Baedeker began publishing travel handbooks in the 1830s, inventing the star rating for sights.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
A host who fed us for a week refused payment and asked only that we send a photograph when we got home. We did, and she printed it.
Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread.
The first official postcard appeared in Austria in 1869 with no picture. Illustrations came later and took over.
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
The word souvenir comes from the French for to remember, which is a better standard than whether it fits in the bag.
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence is the definition of happiness, and travel stretches them.
In some places, arriving on time is what is rude. It took a fortnight to unlearn a lifetime of arriving nine minutes early.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Novel experiences create denser memories, which is why a week somewhere new can feel longer than a month at home.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time.
Better than any app. Four streets, one landmark, an arrow and a name to say at the door. It worked perfectly and we kept the napkin.
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.
Petrichor is the smell of rain on dry ground, caused by plant oils and a soil bacterium compound called geosmin that the human nose detects at extraordinarily low concentrations.
Life is short and the world is wide.
Some dunes boom, hum or sing when sand avalanches down their faces, producing a low note that can be heard several kilometres away.
Travel is rebellion in its purest form.
Not for the photographs and not for the list. For the twenty minutes on a bench in a place you cannot pronounce, when nobody in the world knows exactly where you are.
Sonder: the realisation that every passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Researchers identify individual whale sharks by their spot patterns using software originally written to map stars in the night sky.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
