Self-consciousness kills communication.
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
Juan Bautista de Toledo,
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.
I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's...
Churchill War Rooms: £18, daily 9:30-18:00, last entry one hour before closing.
Firenze Card when you arrive in Florence
Europe knows what a war is. It ripped itself to shreds twice within my grandparents’ lifetime. Consider France’s losses in World War I. France (with one-quarter as many people as we have) lost as many...
Travelers need only focus on four areas: the Old City, the harbor/Barceloneta, the Eixample, and Montjuïc.
The French (and Europeans in general) place a high value on speaking quietly in restaurants and on trains.
Siena’s claim to caloric fame is its panforte, a rich, chewy concoction of nuts, honey, and candied fruits that impresses even fruitcake haters. There are a few varieties: Margherita, dusted in powder...
Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of the human spirit.
If I had to choose one spot to enjoy the small-town charm of traditional Ireland, it would be Dingle and its history-laden scenic peninsula. But the Ring of Kerry—a much bigger, more famous, and more...
Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist.
Regardless of your journey, you can put a little pilgrim in your travels and find your own personal jubilation.
Reservations
While the traffic is enough to make you scream, people are incredibly good-humored on the road. I never heard angry horns honking. One time, while stalled in a Tehran jam, people in a neighboring car...
Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.
I believe if you’re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.
Provides a handy and interesting passage to the Holocaust memorial