Karin G

“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”
― Laura Fraser, An Italian Affair

“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.”
― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Wandering Star

“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.”
― Elizabeth Bowen

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”
― Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel