Notes about travels

Making sketches while travelling allows the traveller to immerse himself totally in his surroundings and to absorb their unique atmosphere. It also allows him to escape from the frenetic pace of modern day tourism and to follow in the footsteps of the first naturalists.

This is why I always travel with a sketch book, stopping in the most remote and varied corners of the world such as on a misty beach looking out onto the North Sea, in a tropical forest in Central America, in a pleasing piazza in a medieval town or a chaotic street in a big city.