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Travel Broadens The Mind.
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The above statement was made years before it was common practice for the Great Unwashed to jump on a plane to anywhere in the world, and before the internet made jumping on a plane an optional extra for information about other countries and cultures.
So, is the above statement in the title no longer applicable? (Considering that there are still many who can not afford to travel.)
So, is the above statement in the title no longer applicable? (Considering that there are still many who can not afford to travel.)
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It depends on how you travel. If you jump on a charter flight to one of the Costas, are taken by coach to a hotel full of Brits abroad, and stay there for the duration of the holiday eating your full English breakfast every day, perhaps you wouldn't learn a lot. If, however, you're a little more adventurous, then, yes, travel definitely broadens the mind. The fact that some people can't afford to travel doesn't alter that.
Many years ago, soldiers and sailors brought back tales and souveneirs from foreign lands, to the awe of the G.U..
Some of them even had tattoos! Wow!
You see my point?
I must agree with you though. Smelling the camel dung and feeling the excitement of not having your throat cut in foreign parts must be and education. One that I have missed out on.
My travel oly consisted of merchant navy, middle east and Japan, briefly.
I do envy the travellers.
My point is, can we not get 90% plus info from cyber and cheap planes in the 21st century?
If not, then this part of experince remains the domain of the few.
Some of them even had tattoos! Wow!
You see my point?
I must agree with you though. Smelling the camel dung and feeling the excitement of not having your throat cut in foreign parts must be and education. One that I have missed out on.
My travel oly consisted of merchant navy, middle east and Japan, briefly.
I do envy the travellers.
My point is, can we not get 90% plus info from cyber and cheap planes in the 21st century?
If not, then this part of experince remains the domain of the few.
Yes, there is an education to be gained from the internet and from television - no doubt about that - but there's nothing like personal experience. Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of to liken it to at the moment is the opera - something my father adored, and something I said I couldn't stand - until I went to Convent Garden and saw La Boheme live for the first time. Being there makes a big difference.
Oh now you're rubbing it in!
Travel and Covent Garden?
I get the bus to the Karaoke in the local pub and think I've had kulcher!
(Sniff sniff)
If I had a decent dress, I'd also go to Covent Garden.
If La Boheme comes to the Empire in Liverpool, would you recommend I put on a decent frock and with a few Fosters in my bustle, join in with the bow tie and decent knickers brigade? I'm sorley tempted!
Travel and Covent Garden?
I get the bus to the Karaoke in the local pub and think I've had kulcher!
(Sniff sniff)
If I had a decent dress, I'd also go to Covent Garden.
If La Boheme comes to the Empire in Liverpool, would you recommend I put on a decent frock and with a few Fosters in my bustle, join in with the bow tie and decent knickers brigade? I'm sorley tempted!
On reflection, only by going to Blackpool, can one truly appreciate the finer qualities of a little stick of Blackpool rock, as immortalised in the song by the maestro himself, George Formby.
The internet or a book could never convey the true mintiness and stickiness of this icon of northern kulcher!
The internet or a book could never convey the true mintiness and stickiness of this icon of northern kulcher!
It depends what you're travelling for, I'm not a boozy holidayer so the Costas are out for me, but if you work hard for 49 weeks of the year 2 weeks in Spain I'm sure is a tonic.
To each their own.
I remember in Yangshuo seeing to 2 gap year students playing chess, they were having a great time and good luck to em, for years to come they'll regale their friends of the evening they spent playing chess, great, truth of it is though is that Yangshuo's not close to the "real" China, it's China lite with night clubs, but I'm sure all it's western visitors felt very intrepid.
That said Yangshuo is great fun and well worth a visit.
Similarly in Bei Hei 2 Germans strode triumphantly onto the beach thinking they were the only wsterners there only for a scouse bus driver to emegre from the depths and go "alright!" their illusions shattered.
It's very hard these days to go somewhere that is'nt organised for tourism, either domestically or internationally.
Travel for your own reasons, do the things you enjoy, it's your money and it's your holiday you don't have to justify it to anyone.
A lot of the complaints about lo-cost airlines are based on nothing but snobbery, I remember seeing Jonaton Maitland on "Tonight" (I.T.V) berating party goers in Prague for not going to the galleries etc, tthere's a whole industry based around these people spending that money, if Prague don't want em, Prague should'nt serve em.
To each their own.
I remember in Yangshuo seeing to 2 gap year students playing chess, they were having a great time and good luck to em, for years to come they'll regale their friends of the evening they spent playing chess, great, truth of it is though is that Yangshuo's not close to the "real" China, it's China lite with night clubs, but I'm sure all it's western visitors felt very intrepid.
That said Yangshuo is great fun and well worth a visit.
Similarly in Bei Hei 2 Germans strode triumphantly onto the beach thinking they were the only wsterners there only for a scouse bus driver to emegre from the depths and go "alright!" their illusions shattered.
It's very hard these days to go somewhere that is'nt organised for tourism, either domestically or internationally.
Travel for your own reasons, do the things you enjoy, it's your money and it's your holiday you don't have to justify it to anyone.
A lot of the complaints about lo-cost airlines are based on nothing but snobbery, I remember seeing Jonaton Maitland on "Tonight" (I.T.V) berating party goers in Prague for not going to the galleries etc, tthere's a whole industry based around these people spending that money, if Prague don't want em, Prague should'nt serve em.
LOL theland, I do like a bit of culture, foreign culture too, I just feel that if you wanna sit on Blackpool beach with a knotted hanky on ya head, then go for it, culture is what you make of it.
I'm a fan of footy, we have a culture that rugby fans can't comprehend and vice versa.
I'd love to tour the battlefields of The Great War, or do the grand tour, but sometimes I (like everyone else) would just like to lay down in the sand and relax with a book and/or a beer.
To each their own, it's like that show (only saw it once or twice) called "Holiday Swap" cor they had some fights.
I'm a fan of footy, we have a culture that rugby fans can't comprehend and vice versa.
I'd love to tour the battlefields of The Great War, or do the grand tour, but sometimes I (like everyone else) would just like to lay down in the sand and relax with a book and/or a beer.
To each their own, it's like that show (only saw it once or twice) called "Holiday Swap" cor they had some fights.
I agree with all of the above. I've traveled extensively over the past 10 years and (perhaps wrongly on my behalf - a bad experience is still an experience ) have never set foot on a Spanish beach or gotten drunk on an 18-30 holiday in Crete.
What I have done though is go to places that are off the beaten track, hired cars to drive to my destinations (sat navs are great, can't get lost even when you set off for miles away from the main roads), hired guides to take us away from tourist areas, got to meet real people and tirelessly trawl brochures to make lists of places to avoid.
You can even do this in Europe - cheap Ryanair flight to Germany, hire a car (cheap if you know where to look), drive through Lichtenstein, Austria, across the Alps to Italy and back again.
Or even in the UK - go to Scotland, or say, the Southwest, and don't plan your travel except the general direction, finding accomodation when you're tired. You get to meet great people, and that's the key.
I'm lucky - have seen many of the great sites and sights of this world but I know I've only scratched the surface. I've been in middle east countries where the population have risen up (scary but great memories), have driven the long highways of the US, been inside the pyramids, had tea with merchants' families. Definitely made me who I am today, for better or worse.
What I have done though is go to places that are off the beaten track, hired cars to drive to my destinations (sat navs are great, can't get lost even when you set off for miles away from the main roads), hired guides to take us away from tourist areas, got to meet real people and tirelessly trawl brochures to make lists of places to avoid.
You can even do this in Europe - cheap Ryanair flight to Germany, hire a car (cheap if you know where to look), drive through Lichtenstein, Austria, across the Alps to Italy and back again.
Or even in the UK - go to Scotland, or say, the Southwest, and don't plan your travel except the general direction, finding accomodation when you're tired. You get to meet great people, and that's the key.
I'm lucky - have seen many of the great sites and sights of this world but I know I've only scratched the surface. I've been in middle east countries where the population have risen up (scary but great memories), have driven the long highways of the US, been inside the pyramids, had tea with merchants' families. Definitely made me who I am today, for better or worse.
Looking through a picture-book, (or a website) at pictures of tiny whitewashed houses nestling under cloudless skies on a steep Mediterranian mountainside can look heartwrenchingly appealing.
Standing amongst those houses in a sweltering and airless 40�C, up to the ankles on a track 2ft deep in centuries of accumulated and stinking goat droppings, while being eaten alive by insects - well, strange to relate, it somehow loses its picturesque appeal.
I have concluded that travel narrows the mind !! ;-)
Standing amongst those houses in a sweltering and airless 40�C, up to the ankles on a track 2ft deep in centuries of accumulated and stinking goat droppings, while being eaten alive by insects - well, strange to relate, it somehow loses its picturesque appeal.
I have concluded that travel narrows the mind !! ;-)
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