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Debate: Travel broadens the mind?
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 25 Aug 2015 21:23 |
yep, Rollo ..... |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 25 Aug 2015 20:54 |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 25 Aug 2015 20:21 |
:-D :-D :-D |
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Rambling | Report | 25 Aug 2015 19:29 |
Sylvia I am having a little laugh to myself, re coach tours. I won''t mention the names but someone I knew well was taking a Saga coach tour which happened to take in the area where some mutual ancestors had come from, so finding someone of the right name in the town ( there are 100s of that name in the area lol) she knocked on the door and invited herself in for tea as a 'long lost relative' ( by marriage), but was very disappointed in them because whilst they grudgingly made a cup of tea, they didn't offer her a biscuit :-) |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 25 Aug 2015 18:52 |
I think what travel does do, as long as you really live amongst the people and meet and talk to them, is to make you more aware of other nationalities, their likes and dislikes, their quirks, why they act as they do or say what they do ................ |
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Annx | Report | 25 Aug 2015 17:47 |
Well we have returned to the same place in Cornwall for the last 5 years. We never intended to but the spotless, cedarwood cabin with 2 tellys and heat at the flick of a switch is like home from home. Glorious views, lots of wildlife and peaceful with only a few other cabins it suits us well. We haven't run out of new places to visit yet either. I have only had a few trips abroad, just to Europe by train or coach, train is best. I'd love to see far flung places like South America but we both hate flying. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 25 Aug 2015 17:35 |
I do think air travel is getting particularly uncomfortable. Partly because most of the places we go at the moment are serviced by the cheaper airlines and, not wishing to pay a fortune to upgrade to only slightly less uncomfortable seats we sit with our knees against the seat in front. But the other part of discomfort is the hassle of delays, cancellations, will there/won't there be strikes in IK or Europe? and luggage weight (different of different airlines), how many bags can be carried on board. Nothing is simple it seems. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 25 Aug 2015 17:34 |
you certainly do not have to travel to broaden your mind, or to have a broad mind ............. |
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Guinevere | Report | 25 Aug 2015 16:39 |
We've been going back to the same place in Wales for 34 years. We go every May. We do go to lots of other places as well but I'd hate to miss our week in May. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 25 Aug 2015 16:31 |
When I was young, we went every year to Scarborough for the June Wakes weeks, that was from 1947 to about 1956. My parents continued going after 1956, but I was allowed to stay home (GCEs etc). |
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Sharron | Report | 25 Aug 2015 14:56 |
I have only ever lived in two houses, half a mile apart and have probably spent less than a month of my life outside the British Isles. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 25 Aug 2015 13:52 |
Depends who is doing the traveling. Foreign travel did not seem to do much to broaden the mind for Erwin Rommel, Napoleon Bonaparte or Margaret Thatcher for instance. Others had minds as wide as an ocean without much foreign gadding about at all - Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Abraham Lincoln. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 25 Aug 2015 12:10 |
Stella, anyone who has read your poetry will know that you are not narrow minded. People who have not broadened their minds with travel can do it in other ways as you obviously have. You are content the way you are and that is what matters. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 25 Aug 2015 11:25 |
Thanks everyone, i do feel better after that, and yes i write poetry , i have and run my own poetry website and i do a fair bit of artwork too. |
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Von | Report | 25 Aug 2015 09:57 |
DetEctTve |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 25 Aug 2015 09:22 |
Stella....I don't think you are narrow minded. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 25 Aug 2015 09:07 |
Stella, you may well have visited more parts of the UK than people who holiday on the Costa’s every year. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 25 Aug 2015 08:26 |
Oh dear i must be very narrow minded then because i have never been abroad, never even had a passport.. :-( :-( :-( |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 25 Aug 2015 08:09 |
I have American friends we met living in Spain.....and it depends what part of Spain it is,Harswell,as the part of Spain we lived in never met any boozy Brits , |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 24 Aug 2015 23:17 |
Yes, the American Dream is not a reality for large segments of the population. Stray off the beaten track and it can get interesting, driving somewhere in rural Arkansas and getting lost, ending at a dead-end shack with a sign advertising 'Pawn, Guns, Live Bait', we did a hasty back-track! |
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