It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.
The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
Do say: “We’re putting you just down the corridor from Her Majesty.”
Don’t say: “You do know she and Philip don’t share a bedroom?”
– The Guardian Pass notes column on President Jacob Zuma’s stay-over at Buckinham Palace
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