Travelling

“To stand in Pompeii is to stare directly into antiquity’s eyes—unblinking and hauntingly familiar.” -- Aldous Huxley

“Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.” - John Steinbeck

“I well remember a day, half a lifetime ago, when landing at Amalfi I found it to be beyond imagination. The luminous air, the delicate peaks overhead, the storied memories that seemed to cling to the old convent walls—the place was a revelation.” -- Henry James

...afloat on the placid sea a league away, lay a great city, with its towers and domes and steeples drowsing in a golden mist of sunset.”– Mark Twain--The Innocents Abroad

"From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe."--Mark Twain

"You cannot step into the same river twice" — Heraclitus Of Ephesus