My philosophy of travel

I have traveled the 5 continents with Do It Yourself formula, very often alone, buying only the flight and they trying to manage with everything else once arrived, looking for accommodation and negotiating the price, moving on public transport, eating wherever it happens, and spending very little. I do not really like to organize before we leaving, I prefer to be free and nomad.

I love to get in touch with the local culture.

This is my belief:

From Bruce Chatwin (1997),  Anatomy Of Restlessness

It’s  A Nomad  Nomad World

…In one of his gloomier moments Pascal said that all man’s unhappiness steemed from a single cause, his inability to remain quietly in a single room … Diversion. Distraction.  Fantasy.  Change of fashion, food, love and landscape. We need them as the air we breathe. Without change our brains and bodies rot. The man who sits quietly in a shatered room is likely to bemad, tortured by hallucinations and introspection….

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men”, said Ib’n Battuta, the indefatigable Arab wanderer who strolled from Tangier to China and back for the sake of it. But travel does not merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind. …

Travel must be adventurous.

“The great affair is to move”, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in Travels with a Donkey, “to feel the needs and hitches of life more nearly; to come down of his featherbed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot, and strewn with cutting flints.“ The bumps arevital. They keep adrenalin pumping around. We all have adrenalin. We cannot drain it from our systems or pray it will evaporate.

Deprived of danger we invent artificial enemies, psychosomatic illnesses, tax-collectors, and, worsts of all, ourselves, if we are left alone in the single room…

“The heavens themselves run continually round, the sun riseth and sets, starsand planets keep their constant motions, the air is still tossed by the winds, the waters ebb and flow…to teach us that we should ever be in motion…