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The illustration above is an early morning view out the window on the night train from Yangon to Mandalay.
Tourist or Traveller: What is the difference?
What are the differences and similarities between these two terms: Tourist or traveller? The answer might be found by exploring perceptions,...
More paintings about travelling
You will now get to know more paintings about travelling. Several years ago Sandalsand published an article about this subject. Right here you will...
Poems and quotes on trains
Which poems and quotes on trains are you familiar with? Travelling by train does something to you, it stimulates thoughts, and afterthoughts. Here...
Hotels to remember – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
When you have travelled on and off for some years, you will have stayed at hotels that are easily forgotten. Other hotels have left their marks in...
Travel apps – Hotels, flights, transportation, communication, handyman
This is the second of two posts offering advice on which apps to use for travelling, near or far. This post deals with travel apps categorised as...
Travel apps – Maps, navigation and guides
This is one of two posts offering advice on which apps to use for travelling, near or far. We'll first concentrate on the very basics: Maps and...
The elusive goal of visiting all World Heritage Sites
For many years I have worked consciously to visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites wherever I travel. I first choose a place or a country to visit, then...
A disintegrated Europe – what would it look like?
Is Europe on the road to self-destruction? Secessionist movements are gaining momentum, and history proves they will be successful. The forces of...
Where’s that plane heading?
Have you ever gazed up at the sky above, spotted a plane and wondered where it was heading? And more: Where did it depart from, what kind of plane...
Ticking places off a bucket list
Travellers have a tendency to set up a bucket list, meaning a list of things to do or places to go before they die, or "kick the bucket" as the...
The ultimate list of great travel movies
Find the ultimate list of great travel movies right here. This post sums up 40 movies worth watching. Read why and watch the trailers. I have used a...
Travel movies – One location
Are travel movies set in one location possible? We would generally view a travel movie as something that depicts movement from one place to another....
Travel movies – Two or more people
This is about travel movies; Two or more people off to discover the world and themselves. We have come to the third list of great travel movies. In...
Travel movies – Lone man or woman
This is a list of travel movies, in particular about a lone man or woman off to discover the world and him-/herself. This article is part of a...
Counting countries or the art of exaggeration
Have you ever wondered how far you've travelled, how you got there, for how long, and to how many countries? Well, I have. My statistics are found...
Don’t we all love passport stamps?
Do you still have your passport stamps? In a previous article I presented short stories from extra-ordinary border crossings and described the...
The true size of countries
What is the true size of a country? Of course, a map is a lie. It cannot fully represent the real world simply because it is two-dimensional. Now,...
International backpacker routes
You are now going to study a map with all the major backpacker routes around the world, all major traveller hubs, and a series of secondary ones. I...
Language Differences in Europe
If you are travelling the Americas you get by with a knowledge of Spanish and English, with a few exceptions. In the rest of the world you...
Paintings about travelling
Painters have always been fascinated by travels, in all aspects of the word. This article on paintings about travelling is a look into their world...
Which passport is the best?
Of course, you are only eligible for a single passport, so the question may be paraphrased. Which citizenship is the most practical if you want...
Is your paid vacation similar to other countries?
It comes as no surprise that paid vacation time varies throughout the world. But how much? The infographic The people at Good.is has set up a...
How do you pack for your trip?
Every person who has been on a trip has had to ask these two simple questions: What do I pack and what kind of luggage should I pack it in?...
Great Travel Movies
Find 20 Great Travel Movies right here. There have been many attempts to assemble an ultimate list of great travel movies. I did a Google search,...
20 Ways to Slice Europe
How do you slice Europe based on prejudices? Here are 20 maps indicating the stereotypes which surround us in everyday life. What kind of prejudices...
Great Travel Quotes
Find great travel quotes right here. The world of literature is full of wise observations with or without a sense of humour. Some might be found in...
The Fascination of Passports
I have always had a fascination of passports. Browsing through a passport is like opening a book to the world and to the life of the owner. After a...
Travel Guidebooks
Travel guidebooks on print have a long and proud history, but they are losing popularity, and they meet increased competition. This article is about...
Great Travel Songs
Are there any great songs travel songs or songs about travelling? Yes, there are and I have compiled a playlist. On my YouTube channel -...
Been there, done that… There is SO much left to explore…
Been there, done that. But what and where? In this post you may read more about the bright future, be it World Wonders, the competing lists for...
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. (A.A. Milne)
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. (Hilaire Belloc)
Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged. (Howard Gardner)
Traveling – it makes you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller. (Ibn Battuta)
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. (Italo Calvino)
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. (Ivanka Trump)
