I’m going to go off on a tangent today.

People who regularly read this blog will understand that I often go off on a tangent, although a bicycle is infinitely more comfortable because it has a seat.

Travel is not just going to Machu Picchu and going ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ at appropriate moments like most tourists blazing their way through an often tight itinerary so that they miss the travel experience. This is not the fault of the tourist, rather the world they come from. The First World is full of pressure and stress. Tourists have a limited time available before they have to be back at the desk on a Monday two or three weeks hence, and as travel to places like South America is costly, they tend to jam as much in as possible.

By doing this they let so much pass them by without so much as…