"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"
"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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