Why You Should Pack Your Bag, Book A Ticket & Just Go…

This article was orignally for Dissh Boutiques blog which I contribute to but I liked it so much that I thought I’d share it on here too…

If you’re anything like me, your life revolves around the next weekend away, that road trip up the coast or the long awaited overseas summer holiday. The world is there to explore. It’s our reason for our search for wanderlust, the search for the unknown & the road less travelled. Travel, it feeds the soul, nourishing us with new experiences with far away cultures and people and places.

I don’t need much encouragement to travel if you know me at all. It’s in my blood. But I do often feel nostalgic when I find a beautiful travel quote that may of summed up a past trip, or a dream about a future one. So I’d like to share with you my favourite quotes and images from some of my past trips that keep me longing for the open road…

Ming xx

“If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man… Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.” Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | Mark Twain

Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’ | Lisa. St. Aubin de Teran

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. | Pico Iye