Travel is a privilege, but it does not confer special importance upon the traveller. A gentleman who visits another city or country takes his curiosity with him and leaves his sense of entitlement at home. He prepares properly, observes the rules of the place and treats the people who live and work there with the […]
A gentleman should be able to pack his own case and know where to find what he needs. There is nothing admirable about dragging half a wardrobe through a station, nor about arriving without a clean shirt because he was determined to travel light. Good packing is a modest exercise in foresight. Work out what […]
It is possible to travel thousands of miles and see very little. A man can collect photographs, tick off monuments and return home with scarcely a new thought about the people whose country he has visited. Curiosity asks more of him. It requires time to notice ordinary life, the humility to ask a question and […]