# Quote — Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

> 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.

- Author: [Dave Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry.md)
- Book: [Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/dave-barrys-only-travel-guide-youll-ever-need.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Barry#Dave_Barry's_Only_Travel_Guide_You'll_Ever_Need_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-barry/dave-barrys-only-travel-guide-youll-ever-need/i-took-an-estimated

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> 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.

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> We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new traveler's checks, buy new souvenirs, order new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to french-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

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> Vermont: See New Hampshire

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