It’s difficult to maintain that sense of wonder in the city where you are settled. Sure, every now and then you glance up and notice the astonishing beauty of the trees you scuttle past every day on the way to the supermarket, or feel a glow of pleasure as you settle in a beloved café down the road from your apartment, but most of the time we’re too caught up in our daily lives to really notice. Traveling abroad reboots that setting in our brains.

