Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Cesare PaveseWhen I try to describe the ( Read more... )

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
Alfred SchnittkeAll that freaking out about packing came to nothing. My bags weigh surprisingly less than I expected them to, and certainly still have room. This is probably ( Read more... )

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao TzuI have less than a week left before my plane leaves ( Read more... )

If the EU is constantly, sometimes irritatingly, seeking out new ways of making itself relevant it is because it has so successfully completed its original mission: to keep the peace after more than a century of war. An achievement so obvious, that it's pocketed without a thought by all the millions of citizens of this unique organisation.
Mark ( Read more... )