What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson

Neither Here Nor There

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Tourism Travel

Author

Bill Bryson

Source

Neither Here Nor There

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

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United States

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Citation

Bryson, Bill. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe. Secker & Warbug, 1991.

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