“Qualifications for a traveller: if you have health, a great craving for adventure, at least a moderate fortune, and can set your heart on a definite object, which old travellers do not think impracticable, then travel by all means. If, in addition to these qualifications, you have scientific taste and knowledge, I believe that no career, in time of peace, can offer you more advantages than that of a traveller.”
Francis Galeton from the Art of Travel, 1855
The choice of how to go about arranging and preparing for your adventures gets wider by the day. Besides the more recent tantalizing options for direct booking provided on the internet, in the last 30 years the number of companies, organisations and operators worldwide has grown from a handful of enthusiasts, and small specialist lifestyle businesses to large corporations who take thousands of bookings each year. Where do you begin? or as they would say in Sikkim …Kay Gurnay? - “ What to do?”
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Hi Nigel,
ReplyDeleteSo what a fella you turned out to be what?
My name is Chris Davies who was in Venning Platoon back in the old ACC days. It was good having you as Commander along with the excellent Sgt. Pete Lines (is that name right?)
We went climbing together up Betys Coed. Good days fondly remembered.
C.