“He who does not travel, does not know the value of men”.
(Ib’n Battuta, the indefatigable Arab wonderer who strolled from Tangier to China and back for the sake of it)

“All our activities are linked to the idea of journeys. And I like to think that our brains have an information system giving us our orders for the road, and here lie the mainsprings of our restlessness. At the early stage man found he could spill out all this information in one go, by tampering with the chemistry of the brain. He could fly off on an illusory journey or an imaginary ascent. Consequently settlers naïvely identified God with the vine, hashish or a hallucinatory mushroom, but true wonderers rarely fell prey to this illusion. Drugs are vehicle for people who have forgotten haw to walk. Actual journeys are more effective, economic and instructive than faked ones” (Bruce Chatwin).

“Travel is a profitable exercise; the mind is constantly stimulated by observing new and unknown things … no proposition astonishes me, no belief offends me, however much opposed to my own … the savages who roast and eat the bodies of their dead do not scandalise me so much as those who persecute the living” (Montaigne).

“Custom and set attitudes of mind, dulled the senses and hid the true nature of things. Man is naturally curious” (Montaigne).

"Those who travel a lot around the world, perceive through their heart what needs to be understood" (The Koran).

Evolution intended us to be travellers. Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been a sporadic condition in the history of man. Prolonged settlement has a vertical axis of some thousand years, a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time. We are traveller from birth. Our made obsession with technological progress is a response to barriers in the way of our geographical progress” (Robert Louis Stevenson). 

The stone stock
"Walk by the sea and stop where the low tide has not reached the sand, then pick up two or three medium-sized stones, darkened by the years spent on the seabed.
Put the stones in a pot filled with rainwater and let them cook slowly until the pores are perfectly cleaned.
Add in some bay or thyme leaves and at the end a spoon of olive oil and a spoon of vinegar.
If you have chosen the right stones, you do not even need to add in salt to the stock.
Well known almost in every island of the Jonian, Adriatic and Tyrrenean Sea, this stock was cooked by the ancient Illyrians, Greeks and Liburni and probably even before by the Phoenician, Etruscan and Pelasgi peoples.
The stone stock is as ancient as poverty in the Mediterranean Sea area" (Predrag Matvejevic).