CharlesII Travel has been organizing tours, trips and complete holiday packages for 25 years. We specialize in excursions to Castles, Palaces, Cathedrals and places of worship. Based in Folsom, California, we have a reputation backed by the many satisfied customers we have severed.
Travel Quotes ....
on June 13th, CharlesII said...
"It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar,"
said the American writer Henry David Thoreau in 1854, and views on travel and travelling have varied down the years.
Dr Johnson said of the the Giants' Causeway,Queen Victoria was unimpressed by accounts of her eldest son's visit to
India"Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see." : "Bertie's
progresses lose a little interest and are very wearing—as there is such a constant repetition of elephants—trappings —jewels—illuminations and fireworks." The Roman poet Horace clearly also had doubts about the value of tourism, commenting that, "They change their clime, not their frame of mind, who rush across the sea." Fanny Burney in the 18th century saw another danger: "Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking a building here after seeing Italy." A century before, Robert Burton had provided the 17th-century equivalent of the modern, "been there, done that, got the T-shirt", writing in his Anatomy of Melancholy, "See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see them all."
