25 April

If you travel to see the world, or for ‘experiences’ (whatever that means), increasingly all you’ll experience is other travellers doing the same thing. Travel only works if everybody else doesn’t try to do it at the same time. Being there doesn’t bring you any closer to the real place. If you want to experience George Clooney, read a bio of him and watch some of his movies and interviews. Stalking him outside his home, you’ll experience exactly diddly squat of the real George Clooney. The same applies to places, being there is the thinnest superficial veneer of their reality.