Frommer Quotes

#1. Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination ...

Arthur Frommer

#2. had put them up to it, perhaps the chefs

David Nicholls

#3. My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

Arthur Frommer

#4. She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses

Anne Tyler

#5. I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

Caroline Corr

#6. Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Arthur Frommer

#7. Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

Arthur Frommer

#8. In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

Arthur Frommer

#9. I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

Arthur Frommer

#10. Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

Arthur Frommer

#11. I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

Arthur Frommer

#12. I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information,

Arthur Frommer

#13. Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?

Jane Austen

#14. At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Arthur Frommer

#15. If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

Arthur Frommer

#16. If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Dan Quayle

#17. chaos on the streets themselves), and

Pauline Frommer

#18. That is the lightest coffin I have ever carried," observed one of Romeo's companions. "Your [bell]ringer must have been a very slender man, Friar Lorenzo. Make sure to choose a fat one next time that he may stand more firmly in that windy bell tower.

Anne Fortier

#19. ... there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

Mark Nepo

#20. I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

Arthur Frommer

#21. What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

Arthur Frommer

#22. I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

Arthur Frommer

#23. Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Brian Jacques

#24. He heard the creaking and cracking of wood again, groaning like a living thing, like the hungry stomach of the world growling for a meal. Then

Patrick Ness

#25. Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Arthur Frommer