 willhelm says: “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard “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 “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” - Robert Frost “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” - Carlo Goldoni My German teacher told us that learning German in school no matter how well you do, will maybe allow you to understand the News, but if you want to learn German you have to go to the country and speak to the people. The way people speak in general conversation, no matter what the language, can be far removed from anything in the official version. There can be twists from town to town as there clearly are in English. Maybe not just opening your mind, but making it wider. Always remembering that when in another country, when having trouble dealing with a culture that is new, they have a right to laugh. It can do wonders to your sense of humor if you can share the joke with them. Of course noth... |
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