"Amateur travel always used to be a pastime for the privileged; now it is a pastime for everyone. Perhaps the greatest social change since the Second World War is the way citizens of the free nations travel as never before in history. We have become a vast floating population and an industry; we are essential to many national economies not that we are therefore treated with loving gratitude, more as if we were gold-bearing locusts."
On the turntable: Johnny Cash, "American Recordings"
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"Inside the plane, our faces change, we toss jokes about, laugh, chat to strangers. Our hearts are light and gay because not it's happening, we're starting, we're travelling again." - Martha Gellhorn, In temporary furnished quarters at Claviers, Spetsai, Comino, Icogne, Naxxar, Antiguq, TaXbiex, Linso, Symi, Marsalforn, 1975-1977
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