Bill Bryson on the joy of foreign places
“All hotels are surrogates for home, some of them more luxurious, some of them less. Even the lowly ones we cherish, because in a place where all our senses are stretched — a new city, a foreign land — they make it OK to fall unconscious. They conquer the alien with the intimacy of a bed. Staying in a hotel is as close as we get to returning to the womb.” –Thomas Swick, “The place … Read more »