Comments on: Around the World in 8 Hours http://www.myguidetravel.com/blog/around-the-world-in-8-hours/ Insight on the travel and tourism industry Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Albannach http://www.myguidetravel.com/blog/around-the-world-in-8-hours/#comment-3 Albannach Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:52:04 +0000 http://www.myguidetravel.com/blog/around-the-world-in-8-hours/#comment-3 Phileas Fogg had the right idea, a 'holiday' of 80 days to travel the world - now that sounds nice. Steamers, trains, even elephants and sledges. Very environmentally friendly, where getting there (in his case, back to Britain, and why not indeed) is part of the experience (ah, the joys of transatlantic steamers instead of flying machines, so long as you've plenty of time and don't mind the odd swell). Only I wonder how much he actually saw and discovered of where he travelled. Perhaps better to see more of less? You make a very good point about seeing the future, perhaps we are already there. We can see the world in 8 hours, rushing here and there, must see this and do that, drive a little further. But far better to slow down and actually enjoy where we are, realise we've arrived ... somewhere different. Now wasn't that the point, to discover why warm beer is so good, why haggis run anti-clockwise around the hills, why the Welsh insist on singing like Julie Andrews and Guiness tastes so much better in Ireland? Phileas Fogg had the right idea, a ‘holiday’ of 80 days to travel the world - now that sounds nice. Steamers, trains, even elephants and sledges. Very environmentally friendly, where getting there (in his case, back to Britain, and why not indeed) is part of the experience (ah, the joys of transatlantic steamers instead of flying machines, so long as you’ve plenty of time and don’t mind the odd swell).

Only I wonder how much he actually saw and discovered of where he travelled. Perhaps better to see more of less? You make a very good point about seeing the future, perhaps we are already there.

We can see the world in 8 hours, rushing here and there, must see this and do that, drive a little further. But far better to slow down and actually enjoy where we are, realise we’ve arrived … somewhere different. Now wasn’t that the point, to discover why warm beer is so good, why haggis run anti-clockwise around the hills, why the Welsh insist on singing like Julie Andrews and Guiness tastes so much better in Ireland?

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