Travel quote: A Dutch saving

“God created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands.”

Inspirational photo taken in Kinderdijk, a village in the Netherlands in South Holland by PamelaWLucas 11/3/17

 

Travel quotes: to search and live

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Inspirational photo taken in Kinderdijk, a village in the Netherlands in South Holland by PamelaWLucas 11/3/17

Travel quotes: to open the eyes

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

Inspirational photo of Jan von Werth Fountain in Cologne, Germany by PamelaWLucas 11/3/17

Travel quotes: to keep forever

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli

Inspirational photo taken by GaryMLucas in Cologne, Germany 11/2/17

Travel quotes: becoming a tale teller

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Town along the Middle Rhine
Along the Middle Rhine

The beauty found in the Middle Rhine is beyond words…the high slopes covered in grapevines, the curving river, the medieval castles, the roman ruins…all combined to serve up an enchanted fairytale.

Inspirational photos taken by PamelaWLucas 11/1/17

Travel quotes: to be humbled

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert

Photo of Heidelberg, Germany by Pixabay

Rhine River travels and no fancy camera

Guten Morgen from Kehl, Germany on the east bank of The Rhine.

Photo by PamelaWLucas 10/30/17

Travel quotes: Live

“To travel is to live.” Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography.

Give it a glance: The complete list of this Dutch writers 168 tales, in the chronological order of publication.

Inspirational photo by Pixabay

Haiku: Piper

A unique beauty
A Black blue iridescent
Needs pipevine to live

Dutchman Pipevine host to Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies
Dutchman Pipevine host to Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies…plant some next spring!

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 10/25/17

Inspirational butterfly photo by Tara McLaughlin 10/17

Dutchman pipevine photo by Pinterest

Cinquain: Turquoise and Orange

some gourds

sit on turquoise

carving will be next step

a warm candle then glows inside

pumpkins

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 10/24/17

Inspirational photo by PamelaWLucas 10/24/17