Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way!


Nick - I also will have fun reading Paula's travelblog.


"In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, self-indulgent, and passing from one scene to another, brilliant or miserable makes no difference. Did the traveler, doing no observable work, freely moving among settled, serious people, get a pang of conscience? I told myself that my writing - this effort of observation - absolved me from any guilt; but of course that was just a feeble excuse. This was pleasure. No guilt, just gratitude." (Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules)

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#22 Paula writes about The Great Wall and Terracotta Warriors
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