The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.