Where you’re from affects how you see the places you visit

“The question you need to ask travel writers isn’t ‘where did you go to,’ but ‘where did you start from.’ Observations of abroad often tell you more about the observer and his culture than the people and place he’s commenting on.”
–A.A. Gill, AA Gill is Away (2003)

Posted by Rolf Potts | Comments (3)  | June 13, 2011
Category: Travel Quote of the Day


3 Responses to “Where you’re from affects how you see the places you visit”

  1. Where you’re from affects how you see the places you visit | Travel Guide And Holiday Says:
    June 13th, 2011 at 12:11 am

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  2. Davis Says:
    June 29th, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    I think the travel writer is our surrogate and for this reason needs to be a person in significant ways not unlike ourselves. For his experience to be meaningful to us, he needs to see things as we would see them.