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Quotes from Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need — Dave Barry

born 1947 United States

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First of all, let's dispense with this absurd stereotype that the French are rude. The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you.

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need (1991)

What Dad means by "see" of course, is "drive past at 67 miles per hour." Dad feels it is a foolish waste of valuable vacation time to get out of the car and actually go look at an attraction.

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need (1991)

Denmark (also called "Norway") is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need (1991)

During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true "vacation paradise," offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need (1991)

I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dave Barry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.