We are so lucky in this day and age because we can just jump in a car, on a bus, on a train on a ship or in a plane and in a short time be in another town, city or country. Long gone are the days when it took weeks and months to move about the world or from one side of a country to the other. Travel opens up the world, we can become modern day adventurers and explorers and take back to our friends and family pictures of places that may have only been ‘visited’ before, in books or at the movies.

Robert Louis Stevenson summed travel up perfectly. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

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