Pensamientos

Para mí, viajar es experimentar lo diferente. Es ir a lugares nuevos y desconocidos, e intentar comprenderlos, de ubicarlos dentro del mundo que tú ya conoces.

Mis mejores experiencias de viaje han sido precisamente aquellas en las que he ido a algún lugar donde no entendía nada a mi alrededor. Ni el idioma, ni lo que sucedía en la calle, ni las normas sociales. Poco a poco, leyendo y hablando con la gente, he ido atando cabos y comprendiendo el lugar.

Emily Thomas, autora de El viaje y su sentido.

 

For me, traveling is all about experiencing otherness. It’s all about going to places that are new and unfamiliar. And trying to figure out how to make sense of them, how to map them on to the world that you do know. 

My best travel experiences have actually been ones where I have gone to some place where I haven’t understood anything around me. Not the language, not what’s going on in the street, not the social cues and I have very slowly, by reading and talking to people, come to put the pieces together and come to understand the place.

Emily Thomas, author of The Meaning of Travel.