Alain de Botton: we sit down with the world’s most famous travel philosopher
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"We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little of why we should go and how we could be more fulfilled doing so."
"We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little of why we should go and how we could be more fulfilled doing so."
One world. One million different ways to explore it. See it, taste it, walk it, climb it, be humbled by it, marvel at it or simply sit back and contemplate your place in it.
When it comes to European mountains, most trekkers make a beeline for the Alps, leaving Pyrenean trails happily under-trampled.