Travelling
MODULE 4
Allurement of travelling. Adventure
Travel Broadens the Mind
Means of Travelling.
Travelling by air, BY TRAIN, by sea
Travel and Accommodation
The future of Ukrainian Tourism. Green Tourism
ALLUREMENT OF TRAVELLING. ADVENTURE.
1.Read the proverbs below. Work in pairs and discuss with your partner the ideas which these proverbs bear. Present your view points to the class.
So many countries, so many customs
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Rest is rust.
Fortune favours the brave.
2. When speaking about “Travelling” we often use such words as: alluring, exciting, interesting etc. to characterize the journey. Why do you think it happens? What do people want to say about “Travelling”? Speak with your partners and present your view points.
A. Allurement of travelling
Every child, I suppose, spends a large proportion of its time in a day dream about things that can capture a child’s imagination. Unfortunately this longing is seldom expressed and is generally submerged by the weight of conventional upbringing and education, but something sufficient remains to have a decisive effect upon our way of life. My earliest recollections are of daydreams about a strange country. My adventures in those places were not very startling, but everything had a quality of endlessness: the rivers went on for ever, the mountains were infinitely high, and the country was always changing. My great delight at the seaside was to put a bottle or a piece of pumice into the sea and watch it float away, or on a windy day to throw a rag into the air to be blown away. I used to imagine those objects travelling on for ever, and I went with them. I am glad that nobody pointed out that my bottles and pumice would be washed up a few hundred yards farther along the beach, or that my rags would be swept into a dustbin.
I was lucky, as I had plenty to stimulate my imagination, for I was never in one place for long, and spent much of my time travelling about in Ceylon and Southern India with frequent voyages between Europe and the East. To an adult such journeys can be measured in an exact number of geographical miles, or in days and hours, and they become rather monotonous. I found them immensely exciting, and often finished them in a state of exhaustion. Having no precise conception of time and distance, I confirmed my notion of the boundless world. The train winding towards the sandy tip of India at Dhanushkodi, and chugging noisily through the jungle-clad up-country of Ceylon and the Nilgiris; an early morning of strange scents, travelling swiftly by cocoanut palms and paddy-fields; stromboli belching fire and smoke; a whale spouting far in the wake of the ship – these were some of the impressions that kept alive the blissful day-dreams during the later dreary years of preparatory school routine, and successfully removed all chances of mastering Latin syntax.
(From “Upon that Mountain” by Eric Shipton)
Comment on the following essay. State what you think about travelling.
B. Adventure
Adventure is necessary to us all. It keeps us from growing stale and old, it stimulates our imagination, it gives us that movement and change which are necessary to our well-being.
One of the objects of travel is to go in search of beauty. The beauty-spots of the world are magnets which draw pilgrims year after year. Yet, even more valuable to the traveller is the knowledge which he gets of his fellow men by going among people of different enthusiasms. It is a story of the stay-at-home who is always ready to call someone else “queer” because his ways are a little different; the much travelled man has sympathy with all sorts of ways and is therefore much more likely to be able to understand another point of view than his own. Frequent travel to other countries would be the best possible insurance against any war. For when you have stayed in the homes of people of other nations and grown to like them and to understand their ways, you will have the greatest antipathy for fighting against them.
And then there is for the traveller the great joy of coming home again. He who never leaves his home sees all its imperfections; but the voyager, when his lust for new things is satiated, turns his thoughts towards home with longing and affection. However humble his home may be, it contains all the things with which he is most familiar. He loves them, and being parted for a little while from them increases his desire for them. So the traveller, besides the delight of travel, has the additional satisfaction of a fuller appreciation of his home.