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- Corvo20
"You lean from the window, your last pipe reeking whitely into the darkness, your body full of delicious pains, your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content; when suddenly the mood changes, the weather-cock goes about, and you ask yourself one question more: whether, for the interval, you have been the wisest philosopher or the most egregious of donkeys? Human experience is not yet able to reply; but at least you have had a fine moment, and looked down upon all the kingdoms of the earth. And whether it was wise or foolish, to-morrow's travel will carry you, body and mind, into some different parish of the infinite."
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Walking Tours)
- GeorgesII0
chossy you crazy bloke.
get up now, buy a ryan air ticket and go to Bratislava!
you'll love it
- chossy0
hee hee this is way better than some old stones and history and culture and shit, especially when the wee frosty dude pops in at 24 seconds yo!.
- Khurram0
i think you have emotional problems, chossy.
- chossy0
I think the only thing which I want to see, after giving this some thought, is this. Those funny wee monkeys that bathe in the hot pools in Japan or wherever it is, I think this is what I want to see most in this world.
- I'm going to email Japan the now and see if they are up for letting me look at their monkeys for a while.chossy
- Khurram0
i'm off to buy almonds from t'shop. Say stuff...
- Khurram0
i'm glad you're all here. I thought i'll never see you again, which made me kinda sad. It's good to know i can pop here every now and then and there's a chance you'll be here. Yay for you lot!
- raf0
- raf0
But on a 'seriouser' note.. don't listen to people who tell you if you haven't worked your ass off on a rye field on the Yangcy for 10 years you know shit about traveling.
I mean those who wrote most of the stuff above.Just go if you've got the itch. For me, even a weekend in a touristic European capital is always an inspiration and I come back loaded with fresh energy. New food, new tastes, new wine, new accents, new visual stimuli. For instance, every country has a different typographic style that you can only get a handle on if you walk its streets. You won't get it browsing flickr. Then I always bring a kilo of leaflets, folders and even newspapers - they're usually an inspiration.
Every landmark looks very different in reality than what I had imagined from pictures and films - be it TransAmerica pyramid, Le Louvre or Lisbon funiculars.If you want to and you can properly travel for long times instead of just visiting it's a bonus, but don't let that be an excuse to sit on your arse.
Also, if you found women in Derby that arousing.. boy, you need to travel asap.
- Khurram0
hey look! we're all here!
- Khurram0
Well, they make it seem all so glamourous don't they?
- Kuz, how do?kelpie
- pretty tight bro.Khurram
- "pretty tight bro" hehe, look how i talk. Actually i feel like shit. I havent slept in 24 hoursKhurram
- I just got back from the Gulf region and then... ah its a long story... but the upshot isKhurram
- i've diagnosed myself with ADD after careful study and have put myself on low dose DextroamphetamineKhurram
- And i have to go to a dinner in the houses of parliament later tonight. Oooooooh.Khurram
- hehehe, not a massive shock old boy, I must say :Dkelpie
- Mal0
once again I think of this.
http://www.ananova.com/news/stor…
- kelpie0
also - its completely human to want to move around, that's how we populated the planet, we're natural explorers as a survival mechanism. Homo Sapiens has built in itchy feet
- Nairn0
The gross majority of the people who 'travel' are sheep, pointlessly emitting carbon so they can check boxes on a list that makes up their middle class idyll.
If you've got no good reason to travel, don't.
If you're grounded and interested in life (and haven't spent the entirety of your existence in some rural hamlet, admittedly) you can learn 'new perspectives' and develop your self and your understanding of The Greater All.
It's not like all of the world's greatest thinkers needed to spend a few months twatting around South America or Asia on some Western consumer train to become what they were.
- tell that to marco polo you sedentary eco-cuntkelpie
- The man thieved pasta, man - he's not on my list.Nairn
- how very dare you. pasta is IM. PORTANTkelpie
- What's wrong with carbon? Stop repeating Labour propaganda you sheeple. CO2 makes jungle regrow, it's goodraf
- oh ffskelpie
- Away and drink your fluoride-free bottled water, you rense.com subscriber.Nairn
- Haha, your fart footprint just tripled, buddy!raf
- calcium0
BORING
I wish I could travel much more than I do. Actually if it was up to me, I would be a design carny just going from town to town making pretty pictures and eating local food.
- kelpie0
avoid trustafarian wanks who think that 3 months on daddy's credit card on an island in thailand makes them robinson crusoe, and you might get another perspective on why it feels good to be in other places.
"traveling about" and "Traveling, yah" are quite different things
- kelpie0
I haven't made it outside blighty in about 3 years now and I'm itching to get the hell off. I love being in new places where I don't speak much of the language and can see all the little differences in the way people live and interact with each other.
Cos I grew up in a tiny place I think the hugeness of the world has always really had that sense of wonder about it that I never lose. I've not had much of a chance to travel about, but have covered most of europe in my time and just getting away from Britain and Britishness is, for me, a massively rewarding exprience.
To each his own though choss, you'll never catch me half way up a cliff-face hanging on by my little finger!
- BaskerviIle0
I've travelled around a bit and enjoyed seeing some amazing countries/things/meeting interesting people. But also I get what you mean chossy.
There is nothing more boring than people who have just been travelling telling you all about how amazing it was, all the cultures they have seen, how limited our western ways are. As if they're the first person to travel.
I can understand it being impressive or exciting 100 years ago when travelling meant a long boat trip to get somewhere that really hadn't been documented, but now it's easy to go to most places (as long as you can afford the flight).
I think going to a completely different culture and living and working in a community for 2 or 3 years might give you a decent impression. But just visitng isn't going to let you truly experience the culture, you'll always been a tourist, an outsider.
People who travel around south east asia and australia for 6 months and return thinking they are 'wordly' or somehow have developed a new depth are just kidding themselves. They're usually back to normal after a few months back at work.
Don't get me wrong, I'd encourage anyone to go and travel and see more of this tiny planet, but just don't return with a superiority. Reading the right books will open your mind just as much if not a lot more.