>>But that's just me. I love to study history and languages and travelling gives me an excuse to do it. A lot of folks have no interest in that at all, they just heard there are good beaches in Bali or climbing in Nepal or shopping in Milan. I can't imagine that.
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>"No, we didn't actually see the downtown Venice, you see in this camp just outside of it they had whatever we needed - shops, taverns, beaches, restaurants, bars, well everything; we had absolutely no need to go to the city"
"Bali - yeah, helluvah place. Kuta's got every kinda bar you can think of and you can get a cold Foster's anywhere. Just like Costa Brava. 'Course, like a lotta these places, you get outsida the good area, there's a lot of foreigners ..." <bg>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
