How to Travel

by The School of Life

Every destination has a character: that is, it emphasises and promotes a particular aspect of human nature.

Travel accedes to its true nobility when we ensure that the physical journey can support a well-defined inner journey towards maturity and emotional health.

Suddenly, for a little while, by the pool or in the mountains, we may have nothing to do other than to be happy. The prospect can be truly alarming.

There are the beginnings of a thousand novels all around the departure lounge.

How peculiar this morning light seems against the memory of dawn in the Obudu hills.

It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

the idea of a short-lived holiday romance can sound rather crass or emotionally exploitative.