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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

At age 10 or 12 he’s going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let’s go!

We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.