Do you take pleasure in the prosaic aspects of everyday life? Do you get just as much of a kick out of the commonplace and the ordinariness of your surroundings as you do the exotic and atmospheric? Alain de Botton writes in The Art of Travel about the travelling mind-set and its main characteristic: receptivity. … Read more about The travelling mind-set: mundane journeys and the banality of travel, part 1
For those of you who don’t like hanging around airports, who don’t take some weird pleasure in the tediousness of travel, and who can’t simply enjoy those moments of travel anticipation over a glass of bubbly in an airport lounge – we know who are you: you just want to get there – Daily Candy … Read more about Tackling the tediousness of travel
If waiting for your luggage to come off the carousel excites you – you can’t wait to get outside the terminal and see what’s out there, right? – or one of your favorite film scenes is the one in Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express where the couple fool around with the model airplane in bed, … Read more about Travelling Inspirations: air travel blogs
“Up up and away, with TAA, the friendly, friendly waaaaaay”. That was the jingle for long gone Australian airline TAA. My precocious little sister Felicia, aged three, upon seeing the airline logo on the side of the plane, once sang the song at the top of her lungs from the top of the stairs as … Read more about Up up and away: junior jetsetters and the formation of air travel fascination
I actually enjoy air travel, especially long haul. I’m not a fan of take off and landing, but when I’m up there I still love looking out the window at the incredible cloud formations. Especially at sunset or sunrise. I like to savor that first glass of wine and salty crackers, to discuss the menu … Read more about A Celebration of Air Travel and the Democratization of Travel