Cannes Travel Quotes

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

On the back of Sir Richard Frances Burton's compass he engraved an inscription from the Qur'an: Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

Sometimes he felt as if the rubber bullet had been travelling a whole decade.

My head against his shoulder, he laughs as if the laughter wants to travel a good distance, down through my body also.

En wanneer ge na nog een half uur lopen dit zestiend' eeuws stadje ontdekken gaat en bij de bron op het plein uw hete handen dompelt in het ijskoude alpenwater, bedenkt ge dat het niet die geijkte namen zijn van de Azurenkust die uw gedroomd verlangen verwezenlijken. Want dat, van Monaco tot Cannes, de banaliteit van het gestandardiseerde u teleurstellen gaat; doch dat ge de kleine paden moet gaan en de stilte vinden en, ver van de autowegen ener zilverpapieren schijnwereld, alleen met u zelve en uw werkelijkheid-geworden droom, deze wereld tastbaar vindt liggen, gestrekt in de zon.

no longer considered it romantic — or worth the aches and pains in the morning — to sleep on the ground, in a bamboo hut, or on the floor of a rice barge. But I hadn’t lost my love of adventure, my desire to get far enough out there to feel the spine-tingling zing of being truly alive.

She makes frequent visits to the US, because America is something you have to stay in practice for, and she doesn't want to lose her touch.

And that’s especially true when you’re on the road. “By far the most important lesson travel teaches you,” says Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding, “is that your time is all you really own in life. And the more you travel, the more you realize that your most extravagant possessions can’t match the satisfaction you get from finding new experiences, meeting new people, and learning new things about yourself.” In fact, according to Potts, “Time = wealth.” By that measure, Robert was a very rich man.