Alistair’s Travels

Islands

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

— Lao-Tzu —

Canada

… the two countries (England & France) are at war over a few acres of snow … and they are spending rather more … than the whole of Canada is worth.'

— Voltaire —

(Candide -1759)

The true Caribbean people… we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to have fun.

— Viv Richards —

Caribbean Islands

Nothing but breathing the air of Africa, and actually walking through it, can communicate the indescribable sensations.

— William Burchell —

Africa

“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, "This is my own, my native land!"

— Sir Walter Scott —

Scotland

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

— Ronald Reagan —

U.S.A.

Then we'll ask ourselves, Was Andalusia here or there? On earth, or only in poems?

— Mahmoud Darwish —

Spain