Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
Continue reading “The Fields of Athenry”Low lie, The Fields Of Athenry
– Pete St. John
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing,
It’s so lonely round the Fields of Athenry
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly and steadily being consumed by sheep.
– Dave Barry
Continue reading “The Past”Njeriu nuk mund ta njohen të sotmen, nese nuk do të kujtoje të kaluaren.
– Kosovan saying
‘Extra Gottingam non est vita, si est vita non est ita.‘
– August Ludwig von Schlözer
“Kennst du die Perle, die Perle Tirols,
– Karl Ganzer
das Städchen Kufstein, das kennst du wohl.
Umrahmt von Bergen, so friedlich und still:
Ja das ist Kufstein, an dem grünen Inn.”
‘Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.
Never cease to stand like curious children
before the great mystery into which we were born.’
– Albert Einstein
„Peculiar travel suggestions
are dancing lessons from god.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“How often have I said to you
that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains,
however improbable,
must be the truth?”
– Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of Four”
“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.”
– Herman Melville
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
– Mark Twain.