I asked it myself last week, when I had an incredibly stressful journey back from Brazil. All my own fault.
My answer: social contact.
The older you get, the harder it is to either meet new people. Or hang onto the ones you already know. As they drift off geographically, spiritually or physically.
My international beer gigs are a great opportunity to socialise. Meet old friends. Make new ones. Pretend that I'm still a student.
That's it, really.Pretending to be young again. If only for a couple of days.
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I don’t travel for social contact, but random people always seem to start talking to me in pubs abroad. They never do at home. I don’t really like it because when they discover I’m from Scotland they invariably want to talk about whisky or football and I know next to nothing about either of those things.
One good thing about travelling is it breaks a lot of my preconceptions. There can be a grain of truth to stereotypes but they are usually wrong in a lot of ways.
It also tends to make me more optimistic about humanity. If you only go by the news you get surprised by how decent more people are when you see them for real.
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