Travels With Valentine
“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. We got tons of history lying about the place, big old castles, and they just get in the way. We’re driving — ‘Oh, a @#$% castle! Have to drive around it…’ Disney came over and built Euro Disney, and they built the Disney castle there, and it was, ‘You better make it a bit bigger, they’ve actually got them here… And they’re not made of plastic!’ We got tons of them, because you think we all live in castles, and we do all live in castles! We all got a castle each. We’re up to here with castles! We just long for a bungalow or something.” — Eddie Izzard
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| On the shore of Loch Gur |
“Have a nice time, people said to me at my send-off at South Station. It was not precisely what I had hoped for. I craved a little risk, some danger, an untoward event, a vivid discomfort…” — Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express
Since I have developed a habit of traveling in the last few years, people often have asked me, “So, where’s your next trip going to be?” In the course of my answer I used to say that I would go to Europe when I got old — better to get the dangerous countries out of the way while I was young and agile.