Travel Brave - by Michelle

The Brave Traveller is aware at once of a distance between him and his surroundings, a kind of space in between his experience of a place and a culture and an affinity as he relates what he experiences with what he now sees. As travellers, we are often looking for meaning, for lines of similarity, m...

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'Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialistic culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of God offers in the world of faith.' Albe...

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'Gehen Sie zur Wiese, gehen Sie zum Garten, gehen Sie zum Holz. Oeffnen Sie Ihre Augen!' Go to the meadow, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! - Albert Hofmann Basel, Switzerland is an important little city, a hub for train and car traffic on the Upper Rhine. It has great sun...

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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. Jesse Jackson As a country, Switzerland has the ability to encompass and lend a freedom of expression to its divided people. Four languages, two religions, the various cantons...Switzerland is united in it...

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Its been a while. Even though the blogs been quiet, Ive been active and reading the mail from readers, I know that youve been beating a path through life too, sometimes with a machete and other times with a smile. For over a month I went back into the psyche and lifestyle of a travelle...

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If we are always arriving and departing it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things - Henry Miller We often call the landing place after our forays as our attempt at 'settling down.' We look for a city, an apartment...

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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.- Martin Buber The place of arrival is a mysterious culmination of pleasure and disappointment. We travel to arrive, or so we think and when we do finally set our suitcase down and nestle into the comforts of a lengthy stay, b...

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People walk around with frames around their souls. Are we born with it? I don't know, but from an early age we begin to feel the edges of the permissible, the accepted and the traditions into which we now do life. Our frame can shrink and enlarge depending on the company we keep or the view from whe...

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Living in Sydney, I enjoy walking through the city at night. Surry Hills is a favourite with roads lined with trees, every one a timepiece and every falling leaf is a reminder that all is subject to change. Everything and everyone is in a sense, passing through from one state into another, from one ...

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When we step outside our doors, we rarely expect the day to bring anything more than what we managed the day before. It takes a series of decisions to force us to seek out the red pill and swallow it whole but some manage it. And they never look back. My friends' adventure started once they had...

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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang The French Riviera is a destination with its name in lights. For as long as we have had brave travellers, we have had the Riviera so it's difficult to write about this de...

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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang The French Riviera is a destination with its name in lights. For as long as we have had brave travellers, we have had the Riviera so it's difficult to write about this de...

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The truth of the matter is that the traveller barely has time to write home to let family know they still live, much less the energy to press pause and attain the silence needed for any type of internal study. Your mission is to remain captivated by the Carnivale of the world, rather than the deep s...

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As a brave traveller, we are geared toward the experience. We set out from home and we know that whatever lies ahead, it will be different. And we seek that difference as a bastion to set us apart from everyone else seeking the same experience but what we dont always set out to accommodate is the f...

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The effects of travel on a relationship can be positive and devastating. I know. Right now, I'm living the post-travel life. A life where I am settled in one city for an indefinite amount of time. For once in my life, I'm not thinking about the next trip, the next flight, the next...the next...I hav...

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