Not Everyone Who Travels Is a Traveller
Not everyone who travels is a traveller. And perhaps it is becoming harder to be one.
In the latest issue of the Ateneo de Cáceres magazine, I write about mass tourism and something much older: what it actually means to travel. From Marbella to Ibn Battuta, from Portugal to Mali, from consuming places to allowing places—and the people we meet in them—to change us.
Do we travel to see the world, or to let the world alter us a little?
My essay, El viajero y la multitud (The Traveller and the Crowd), begins on page 50.
Many thanks to the Ateneo de Cáceres for once again inviting me into its pages.
