“Apart from its stunning stretch of uninhabited beach and a jungle dense with wildlife and fruit trees, the island had an in-built marketing peg, a mysterious Golden Buddha that lay buried in a hidden location beneath the sand.”
— Kimina Lyall, from Out of the Blue


“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


“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


“Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain