Over such trivialities as these many a valuable hour may slip away, and the traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
I live this. While we may be methodical and purpose-oriented about learning and sight-seeing in our travels, often the most lasting impressions are those with local people