I'm not sure what to say really or whether I actually want to write anything at all. I find that travel journals, for the most part, are as boring as journals written at home. The daily or weekly events of anyone are of little interest unless one is absorbed in the daily life of the place visited and observation is of limited value when one understands little of the history and the culture and the politics of the country one is in.
One consequence of this is a tendancy, perhaps, to see everything as the same, as globalisation, or what used to be called American cultural imperialism, makes ...




