About a year ago, I received an email from a woman whose name I didn’t know and cannot now recall. The crux of her dogmatic email was to “inform” me of the true definition of a journalist, and why a travel blogger/writer should not be so presumptuous as to use that title. I replied that...

"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)