1 June

Travel isn’t about seeing the world. You can do that with photos. It isn’t about experiencing the world either, because tourists don’t experience the world. They’re tourists, they don’t live in the places they go to. You can’t ‘experience’ a place, by visiting it. Like saying you can get to know somebody by shagging them. It’s about a pissing contest, a rivalry. At home. The most popular travel places (Japan right now for example) ‘trend’, just like shoes or TV shows trend. A status game, like everybody buying Hiluxes. It’s turning every location into a theme park. Western culture has zero - nada, zilch - understanding of place.