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“To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.”
“getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesnt help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.”
“getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.”
“Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.”
“Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.”
“A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.”
“Most moderately active children as long as they have full stomachs cope well with exotic experiences, but parents should get fit for their trip. Young children will expect their parents to be All...”
“I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.”
“no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when youve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.”
“We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.”
“On lifes journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become”
“The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.”
“ everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted...”
“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. Theyre right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes lif...”
“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back ho...”
“Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.”
“a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.”
“GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole personspend time with the dyingsee things through to the end.”
“Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.”
“I wished I could paint this ineffable beauty but I had never been artistic. I hadnt even packed a camera, and my phone was out of charge. It didnt matter. I just breathed in the feeling, savouring ...”
“We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is only ever possibl...”
