3 August

“A life of wishing you were elsewhere is really no life at all.” Never thought I’d see the core truth of travel, written by a professional traveller. I think it’s nice that at least one person who’s used multiple tonnes of fuel and trashed other peoples’ homes on their own personal development finally understood. Humans are suggestible, foreign places always seem so much more ‘amazing’. But they’re just somebody’s home, like ours, and that first flush of wow fades to everyday life as we know it. Just as it does for human relationships.