Comments on: I can see clearly now: the value of first hand experience http://www.501places.com/2010/10/i-can-see-clearly-now-the-value-of-first-hand-experience/ Sharing the world with you Thu, 12 May 2011 17:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: ayngelina http://www.501places.com/2010/10/i-can-see-clearly-now-the-value-of-first-hand-experience/#comment-24789 ayngelina Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:11:58 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=4007#comment-24789 I agree its so easy to generalize a city or country one way or the other but if you stay long enough you'll see both the good and the bad. I agree its so easy to generalize a city or country one way or the other but if you stay long enough you’ll see both the good and the bad.

]]> By: Andy Jarosz http://www.501places.com/2010/10/i-can-see-clearly-now-the-value-of-first-hand-experience/#comment-24538 Andy Jarosz Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:38:01 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=4007#comment-24538 Thanks Theodora and very well put - it is the mundane that can offer us the greatest insights because for most of us our daily lives do follow a predictable routine. Perhaps it's our own wish to escape that mundanity that makes us look for the extraordinary when we travel. Thanks again for the insights... Thanks Theodora and very well put – it is the mundane that can offer us the greatest insights because for most of us our daily lives do follow a predictable routine. Perhaps it’s our own wish to escape that mundanity that makes us look for the extraordinary when we travel. Thanks again for the insights…

]]> By: Theodora (Travels with a Nine Year Old) http://www.501places.com/2010/10/i-can-see-clearly-now-the-value-of-first-hand-experience/#comment-24526 Theodora (Travels with a Nine Year Old) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:10:03 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=4007#comment-24526 I think that one of the things travelling slowly and thoughtfully gives you is the ability to see others not as exotica but as fellow human beings, and avoid those negative generalisations about entire peoples. Lovely that you get the insight into optometry, and their working lives. Mundanity, I think, tells a bigger story than a million staged and prepackaged cultural experiences. I think that one of the things travelling slowly and thoughtfully gives you is the ability to see others not as exotica but as fellow human beings, and avoid those negative generalisations about entire peoples.

Lovely that you get the insight into optometry, and their working lives. Mundanity, I think, tells a bigger story than a million staged and prepackaged cultural experiences.

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