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The illustration above is an early morning view out the window on the night train from Yangon to Mandalay.
Travel movies – One location
Are travel movies set in one location possible? We would generally view a travel movie as something that depicts movement from one place to another....
Travel movies – Two or more people
This is about travel movies; Two or more people off to discover the world and themselves. We have come to the third list of great travel movies. In...
Travel movies – Lone man or woman
This is a list of travel movies, in particular about a lone man or woman off to discover the world and him-/herself. This article is part of a...
Counting countries or the art of exaggeration
Have you ever wondered how far you've travelled, how you got there, for how long, and to how many countries? Well, I have. My statistics are found...
Don’t we all love passport stamps?
Do you still have your passport stamps? In a previous article I presented short stories from extra-ordinary border crossings and described the...
The true size of countries
What is the true size of a country? Of course, a map is a lie. It cannot fully represent the real world simply because it is two-dimensional. Now,...
International backpacker routes
You are now going to study a map with all the major backpacker routes around the world, all major traveller hubs, and a series of secondary ones. I...
Language Differences in Europe
If you are travelling the Americas you get by with a knowledge of Spanish and English, with a few exceptions. In the rest of the world you...
Paintings about travelling
Painters have always been fascinated by travels, in all aspects of the word. This article on paintings about travelling is a look into their world...
Which passport is the best?
Of course, you are only eligible for a single passport, so the question may be paraphrased. Which citizenship is the most practical if you want...
Is your paid vacation similar to other countries?
It comes as no surprise that paid vacation time varies throughout the world. But how much? The infographic The people at Good.is has set up a...
How do you pack for your trip?
Every person who has been on a trip has had to ask these two simple questions: What do I pack and what kind of luggage should I pack it in?...
Quotes
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
Traveling – it makes you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller.
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.