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twobluebirds:

Budapest Map by Lena Corwin

HELLO THERE.

The Place: Budapest →

T Magazine has a whole series of pieces about traveling to Hungary’s capital. I’m going to have to find a print copy. These pieces are too good to lose.

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Looks like a great place to stretch out your legs, read a novel, and take a nap. Have a great weekend, everybody.

thisisappalachia:

(via Front Porch, Rental Cabin | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

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The Friedrichswerdersche Kirche museum in Berlin, a neo-Gothic church that now houses a collection of 19th-century sculpture. (via Kimmelman-Postcards-sculpture - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com)

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So true.

comiques:

Taking the weather with you

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Have a great weekend, everybody.

sara-white:

A lovely cobbled street in Paris’s chic St. Germain de Près neighbourhood. Photo by Irene Suchocki.

twobluebirds:

Hickory Nut Falls NC

Where Ashley and I went a few weeks ago. It was amazing.

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prosepoem:

Let’s take a trip, just you and I, beyond the mountains and beyond the sunrise. We’ll pack our bags with everything we need and slip away before anyone can miss us. And I’ll kiss your hand, and you’ll smile, and we’ll make our camp beneath spread-out stars and fragrant blossomed trees.

(via 24ribs)

"The brain is a neural tangle of near-infinite possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosing what not to notice. As a result, creativity is traded away for efficiency; we think in literal prose, not symbolist poetry. A bit of distance, however, helps loosen the chains of cognition, making it easier to see something new in the old; the mundane is grasped from a slightly more abstract perspective. As TS Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

Jonah Lehrer explains why travel makes us smarter. (via Bobulate)

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, & narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth."

Mark Twain (via binxbolling)

"The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in return I possessed “infinite riches” in what would have been to motorists “a little room.” The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it “annihilates distance.” It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given… A modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from traveling ten."

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy. This is one of the reasons I love biking and walking places, even for short distances: without a car, travel is a conscious choice, and requires a degree of planning and forethought that car-based transportation lacks. (via beenthinking, via mills)

4 Ways To Be A Traveler, Not A Tourist →

Via shawnblog.

I’ll be in Paris soon. Looks like good advice.