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Bill Bryson Quotes about Travel

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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Bill Bryson
Life, Summer, Travel

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

Bill Bryson
Country, Travel, Memorable
Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Cities, Arriving
Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Judging, Skins

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Memorable, Pessimism
Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson
Running, Travel, Home
"Neither Here Nor There". Book by Bill Bryson, 2012.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Names, Looks
Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Coffee, Beer
Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Cities, Feelings

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Fascination, Bunk
Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.104, Random House

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson
Travel, Nice, Europe
Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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