Shumikhina Anastasia, Vyatka State University, Kirov, Russia
Essay on English language with the translation. Nomination Our world.

Why I`m found of travelling.

Traveling for me is the best way to escape from difficulties of life and reality.

It`s so wonderful and unbelievable to know that you can see so many places,different countries,amazing people, become a witness of world`s miracles: Sahara Desert in Northen Africa,Taj Mahal in India, Pyramids in Egypt, the castle Noishvanshtain in Bavaria, Germany.

If you are a lucky person having enough money, time and desire you may go away from your native town, city or village; wandering all over the Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia, Southern and Northern America - so all over the world.

Nowadays travelling is so much popular amond people from big cities. The main reason is - they`re so tired and sick of constantly living in huge, dirty,noisy , crowded cities as Moscow, Mexico, Pekin, New York...

Many people are fond of a quet calm rest on the sand of the shore near the deep green sea. They're usually laying on the beach, drinking fruit juice and simply dreaming. Dark deep water is calling them. Sounds of waves make them fell safe and comfortable.

Other like more active rest. These enthusiasts are keen on cycling, walking on foot, boating sport. They go throught new place, buy souvenirs, have a talk with all guids. They are very sociable, sporty-healthy persons.

As for me, I enjoy taking photographs of beautiful natural landscapes: sparkling views of waterfalls, snowy trees, birds, excotic animals. Most of all I like making photos of sea and ships. Last time I saw a shipe during my summer holidays in Sochi two years ago. It was unforgettable.

My oldest dream is seeing Noishvanshtain, the castle which was built by Ludvig The Second, a bavarian prince. He was a lonely man with kind gray eyes living his liffe in loneliness. But who could imagine that his work will become a prototype of Disney`s simbol - Cinderella`s castle because of its magical and wistful vew/

All in all travelling is a theraphy from stresses and bad mood. We have to treasure our holidays and be ready to discover something new to make us live a full, an interesting, a real life.

Traveling for me is the best way to escape from everyday difficulties.

It's so beautiful and incredible to realize that you can see so many places different countries, amazing people, to witness the wonders of this world: the Sahara Desert in North Africa, the Taj Mahal in India, the Pyramids in Egypt, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany.

If you are a lucky person with money, time and desire, you can rush far from your hometown or village, wandering through Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia, South and North America - around the world.

Currently, travel is so popular especially among people - residents of megacities. The main reason is their unbearable fatigue from permanently living in huge, polluted, noisy, densely populated cities like Moscow, Mexico City, Beijing, New York.

Many people like a calm, quiet holiday on the sandy shore next to the deep green sea. They usually lie on the beach sipping fruit juice and just daydreaming. Deep dark water is calling them. The sound of the waves gives a feeling of comfort and tranquility.

Others prefer more leisure. these enthusiasts love cycling, hiking, and river rafting. they go everywhere, buy souvenirs, start a conversation with all the guides. These are sociable, athletic people.

As for me, I love to take photos of beautiful natural landscapes: Sparkling waterfalls, snowy trees, birds, exotic animals. But most of all I like to shoot the sea and ships. The last time I saw a ship in Sochi was during my summer holidays 2 years ago. It was unforgettable.

My old dream is to see Neuschwanstein, the castle built by Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was a lonely grey-eyed man who spent his life alone. But who could have imagined that his work would become the prototype of the Disney symbol - Cinderella's Palace, because of its magical and wise image.

To sum up, travel is therapy against stress and bad mood. We should cherish the holidays and be ready to discover something new that encourages us to live a full, interesting, real life.

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, fanaticism and narrow-mindedness, which is why it is so urgently needed by many. © Mark Twain
• If there's one thing I've learned in my travels, it's this: The only way to get things done is to go out and do them. No need to rant about going to Borneo. Buy a ticket, get a visa, pack your backpack and it will happen. © Alex Garland
• Travel teaches more than anything. Sometimes one day spent in other places gives more than ten years of life at home. © AnatoleFrance
• When preparing for a trip, lay out all your clothes and all your money. After that, take half the clothes and double the money. © Susan Heller
• Time constantly surprises us, it is impossible to get used to its tricks. The vacation ends as soon as it starts: as soon as you check into a hotel, it’s already time to go back. But once you come back, it feels like you haven't been home for ages. © Claudia Hammond

• Traveling makes life much more interesting if you follow sudden impulses. © Bill Bryson
• In twenty years, you will regret more not what you did, but what you didn't do. So throw off the knots, swim out of the safe harbors. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Open up. © Mark Twain
• It's a wonderful feeling to board a long-distance train without luggage. As if, leaving the house for a walk, you suddenly find yourself in a curved space-time - and find yourself in the cockpit of a dive bomber. And there is nothing more. No visits to the dentist scheduled for the week on the calendar. No problems piled up on the table waiting for you to come. Not all these "social relations" from which you run the risk of not extricating yourself for the rest of your life. Not a false friendliness on the face to gain the trust of others ... I just send all this to hell for a while. All that's left are these old tennis shoes with worn soles. Only they - and nothing else. Already they are firmly rooted to the legs - scraps of obscure memories from another space-time. Well, it's not scary anymore. Such memories are easily banished with a couple of beers and a ham sandwich. © Haruki Murakami
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. © Lao Tzu
• If a person remains unchanged on a journey, it is a bad journey. © Ernst Simon Bloch

• Traveling helps to understand the beauty of space and the pricelessness of time.
• Traveling develops the mind, if, of course, you have one. © Gilbert Chesterton
• Knowledge of the countries of the world is an adornment and food for human minds. © Leonardo da Vinci
• We travel not to escape from life, but to keep it from us.
• This is very correct - to come to a foreign city in the morning. By train, plane, whatever. The day starts as if from scratch… © Sergey Lukyanenko

• A person is able to change his life, changing only his point of view. © William James
• Although we travel all over the world in search of beauty, we must have it in ourselves, otherwise we will not find it!© Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Whatever You desire for Yourself, give it to another...If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to be successful, help another to be successful. If You want more Love in your Life, make sure that the other person has more of it. Do it sincerely - not because you are looking for personal gain, but because you really want the other person to have it all - and everything that you gave will come to you.Why is that? How it works? The very act of giving makes You feel that You have, that You have something to give. Since You cannot give what You do not have, Your mind comes to a new conclusion, a New Thought about You, namely: You have something, otherwise You could not give it away. This New Thought becomes part of Your Life Experience. You start to “be” like that. And once You begin to “be”, You set in motion the most powerful machine of creation in the Universe - Your Divine Self. © Neil Donald Walsh

• I could spend my whole life walking around a new city every day. © Bill Bryson
• The world is a book. And who did not travel through it - read only one page in it. © St. Augustine
• Travel only with those you love. © Ernest Hemingway
• Travel as the greatest science and serious science helps us to rediscover ourselves. © A. Camus

• Everyone in their hearts wants to suddenly pack up and leave ... Where to? What for? And what does it matter. Just get away and be far from this noisy, constantly running somewhere society.
• Travel is a great cure for loneliness.
• I travel not to get somewhere, but to go. The main thing is movement. © Robert Louis Stevenson
• There are only two ways to live life. The first is that miracles do not exist. The second - as if there are only miracles around. © Albert Einstein
• Travel only with those who are equal or better than you. If not, travel alone. © Dhamapada

• It's never too late, or in my case, it's never too early to be who you want to be. There is no time limit, there are no rules: you can change or stay the way you are. I hope you do things that scare you. I hope you are experiencing feelings that you have never experienced before. I hope you meet people with different points of view. I hope you live the life you deserve. If not, I hope you have the courage to start over.
• Half the fun of traveling lies in the aesthetic of being lost. © Ray Bradbury
• We only feel the charm of our native speech when we hear it under foreign skies. © George Bernard Shaw
• To regret the lost time is a waste of time.© Mason Cooley

• Travel has its benefits. If the traveler visits best countries then he can learn how to improve his. If fate brings him to the worst countries, he can learn to love his country. © Samuel Johnson
• If a person moves confidently towards his dream and strives to live the life he imagined, then success will come to him at the most ordinary hour and quite unexpectedly.
• Traveling is flirting with life. It's like saying: "I would like to stay with you, I would like to love you, but I have to go, this is my stop." © Lisa Saint-Aubin-de-Teran
• Well, where we do not. In the past, we are no longer there, and it seems beautiful. © A. Chekhov
• Freedom will begin when you stop limiting yourself to someone else's ideas. © Amu Mom
• While we are young, we must arm ourselves with a toothbrush and go wherever our eyes look. Laugh, do crazy things, go against the system, read as much as it seems to fit in your head, love with all your strength, feel. Just live. © Stanislavsky

• Trains are amazing; I love them still. Traveling by train means seeing nature, people, cities and churches, rivers - in essence, this is a journey through life. © Agatha Christie
• If you are young, healthy and eager to learn new things, then I conjure you - travel. And go as far as possible. Sleep on bare ground if you have to, but stick to that idea. Learn life from people, learn from them how to cook, and in general everything, wherever you go. © Anthony Bordian
• No one realizes the beauty of travel until he comes home and rests his head on an old familiar pillow. © Lin Yutang
• The pleasure of life is drawn from our meetings with the new, and therefore there is no greater happiness than constantly changing our horizons, meeting each day under a different sun. © Jon Krakauer

• He went to conquer new lands with only what he was wearing, because he did not want to carry anything with him from Chester Mill. Apart from a couple of pleasant memories, but for them he did not need any suitcases, or even a backpack. © Stephen King
• The ultimate goal of travel is not to see a foreign country, but to see one's own country as a foreign one. © Gilbert Chesterton
• When you travel, you rediscover yourself.
• I now realized that the surest way to find out whether you like a person or not is to go traveling with him. © Mark Twain

• Traveling is the best thing in the world. When you wander, you grow rapidly, and everything that you see is deposited even on your appearance. People who traveled a lot, I recognize from a thousand. Wanderings purify, intertwine meetings, centuries, books and love. They make us related to the sky. If we have received the unproven happiness of being born, then we must at least see the earth. © Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• It is not guided tours that come to God, but single travelers. © Vladimir Nabokov
• Travel - the ability to gather, move and not be afraid.
• For those who have just walked out the door, the hardest part is behind them. © Dutch proverb
• Tomorrow will be what should be, and there will be nothing that should not be - do not fuss.

• Traveling is one thing that will only make you richer if you buy it.
• Three things make a person happy: love, an interesting job and the opportunity to travel. © Ivan Bunin
• 93% of people have a dream that can be fulfilled before the end of the week, and they make it their dream of a lifetime.
• A train ticket excites more hope than a lottery ticket. © Paul Moran
• Sometimes you really want to become a hedgehog, collect all kinds of garbage in a rag, hang it on a stick, stick on your shoulder and slowly go into the fog.
• Life is like a delivery service: we get what we ordered. © Stephen Covey
• I think everything in life is art. That you do. How do you dress. How you love someone and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in and all your dreams. How do you drink tea? How do you decorate your home? Or how to have fun. your shopping list. The food you are preparing. What does your handwriting look like? And the way you feel. Life is art.

• I want to drop everything and just travel the world with someone who wants it as much as I do.
• I feel so cramped under the spring sky

That, hoping to catch a wave,

I will one day go out for bread

And accidentally leave the country.

• All travel goes in circles. I rode around Asia, writing out a parabola in one of the hemispheres of our planet. In short, a round-the-world trip is just a curious person's way back home. © Paul Thero
• A person who travels a lot is like a stone carried by water for many hundreds of miles: its roughness is smoothed out, and everything in it takes on soft, rounded shapes.
• If you are doing something beautiful and sublime, and no one notices it, don’t be upset: the sunrise is generally the most beautiful sight in the world, but most people are still sleeping at this time. © John Lennon
• My opinion about travel is brief: when traveling, do not go too far, otherwise you will see something that will then be impossible to forget ... © Daniil Kharms
• I'm so angry because I don't have my own wine cellar and little house in Italy.
• Life has taught us to combine extremes. Love people, but be indifferent. Do good and wait for evil. Hope for the best, but expect the worst. Believe in people and trust no one. Be an optimist with realistic views. Live with an open heart and don't let anyone into it. Part of you should love the world and admire it, while the other part should wait for the blow and be ready for war. © A. Solovieva

• The benefit of travel is the ability to adjust your imagination to reality, and instead of thinking how things should be, to see things as they are. © Samuel Johnson
• A simple cheese sandwich eaten on a picnic on top of a cliff overlooking the raging sea seems to us tastier and more important than any restaurant delicacies. © Alain de Botton
• You set your own boundaries. And they are only in your head. And no more. You choose where you work and how you study. What grades to get and what color your diploma will be. Your work is your choice. The choice of the city of your dreams is yours. And only you will choose your path. What do you want - an easy carefree life or a narrow road full of adventures?If you don't have a dream, then you're working for someone else. Do you want this?The choice is yours. You set yourself the bar for your risk. You set the boundaries of your ceiling, above which you cannot jump. You choose where you develop and what to delve into. What is important and what is not worthy of your attention. You choose how to think about people or not think about them at all. Every day is a choice. And he is behind you.
• “Don’t you think it’s great to drop everything and go somewhere where no one knows you?” Sometimes that's what you want to do.- I want it badly.© Haruki Murakami
• Don't tell me how educated you are - just tell me how much you traveled. © Muhammad

• There is nothing more useful for the nerves than to go where you have never been. © Anna Akhmatova
• Many people don't budge because they care about the feeling of security, or because they're generally intimidated by the thought of having to do something unfamiliar. Change lies outside their comfort zone and scares them. But the reality is that all of life's rewards are out of your comfort zone. Deal with it. Fear and risk are mandatory stages if you want to live successfully and interestingly. © Jack Canfield
• Often, it is easier to become yourself somewhere on the road or in a foreign city, but not at all at home. © Alain de Botton
• Each journey has its own secret destination, which the traveler himself has no idea about. © Martin Buber
• For him, only two favorite moments remained in his life: when he approached a big city and when he left it. © Peter Hoeg
• Anyone who gathers two days before the trip should consult a psychiatrist. Normal people stuff their things into a bag when they have to leave the house. © Tony Hawks

• A tourist, as soon as he arrives somewhere, immediately begins to want to return. And the traveler ... He may not return ... © Paul Bowles
• Only roads can push back old age. When you drive all the time and go to bed, knowing that an alarm clock will wake you up at night in order to catch a plane that goes the devil knows where and generally the devil knows why you are flying on it, then time stops. © Yulian Semenov
• Defeat yourself. It is better to defeat yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then victory is yours. Neither angels nor demons, neither heaven nor hell can take it away from you. To conquer yourself, you must conquer your mind. You must control your thoughts. They should not rage like the waves of the sea. You may be thinking, “I can't control my thoughts. The thought comes when it pleases. To which I reply: you cannot prevent a bird from flying over you, but surely you can prevent it from nesting on your head.” © Buddha Gautama
• In order to live, one must tear, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and start again, and quit again, and fight forever. And peace is spiritual cowardice. © Leo Tolstoy
• The carriage window is the main entertainment for the traveler. In it, as in a kaleidoscope, half-stations, villages, forests flash by, bridges fly by under the metallic whistle of riveted beams, fields are revealed that change their color from white to black and from green to yellow.

In motion, everything seems so cute and a little toy, as if not real. Looking out the window, the passenger becomes a bit of a child, discovering with surprise how vast the world is, how much space and air it contains, and not just the usual streets and houses.

There is a secret charm in the car window, when you look under the lullaby of the rolling of the wheels and do not hold your eyes on anything. Pictures fly by as if smeared with a brush, and from this measured movement and constant change of impressions you plunge into a light waking drowsiness, and thoughts come to mind by themselves and just as easily disappear.

Sometimes you want to go nowhere. Just go and listen to your favorite music, look at the flickering lights, look at all this city bustle. Forget about all the problems and just enjoy.

• People don't create trips - trips create people. © John Steinbeck
• I dream of traveling so much that airport workers recognize me and ask:Where to this time?

• Our doubts are our traitors. They make us lose what we might have won if we weren't afraid to try...
• The true destination of your journey is not a place on the map, but a new perspective on life. © Henry Miller
• A good traveler does not have precise plans and intentions to get somewhere. © Lao Tzu
• Tell me, what changes in a person's life after going to the mountains? Worldview. He begins to look at life differently. Values ​​are changing. There is no money, no usual amenities. Returning home, newcomers begin to understand and appreciate the charms of simple things, people begin to relate differently to the benefits of civilization. After all, up there, far from home, everything that happened before the campaign seems like a fairy tale. In the mountains, there are completely different requirements for people than in the city.
• There are three traps that steal joy and peace: regret for the past, worry for the future, and ingratitude for the present.
• Never skimp on something you can't duplicate. © Tony Wheeler
• - Why do you immediately reject people as soon as they make a mistake. You will spend the rest of your life alone.

- You know, I'm used to hunger, but I'm not used to bad food.

• Traveling means debunking other people's misconceptions about other countries. © Aldous Huxley
• Only two things we will regret on our deathbed - that we loved little and traveled little. © Mark Twain
• You will never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
• Everything in life is temporary. If everything goes well, enjoy it, it won't last forever. Well, if everything is lousy - do not be sour, this is also not forever. © F. M. Dostoevsky
• When you travel without knowing English, you begin to understand what it means to be born deaf and dumb. © Philippe Bouvard
• It happens to me too. I look at the map - and suddenly there is a wild desire to go no one knows where. As far as possible from the conveniences and benefits of civilization. And to see with your own eyes what kind of landscapes there are and what is happening in those parts. To fever, to shiver. But where this desire came from in you, you can’t explain to anyone. Curiosity in its purest form. Unexplained inspiration.
• Remind yourself more often that the purpose of life is not to achieve everything planned, but to enjoy every step taken on the path of life.
• Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you, and you are alone, and your whole life is in your hands, you feel more like a master than ever.
• You also get used to loneliness. A completely harmonious union is even possible with him: you live alone with yourself, cook dinner for one, fall asleep in front of the TV and do not wait for the appearance of a savior, which still happens only in books and films. yes, this loneliness is painful, frosty, but it is honest - it is better to be alone than with just anyone. © Elchin Safarli

• Once a year, go somewhere you've never been before.
• I decided to go on a journey, on a real, great journey, which, probably, everyone dreams of, but never has time to decide. Every day I felt more and more clearly the need for this, and not because I wanted to see new interesting places but because he did not feel attached to any place. Andrey Sidorenko.
• Losing your way while traveling is unpleasant, but losing the sense to go further is even worse.
• Life is the way. For some, this is the way to the bakery and back, for someone - a round-the-world trip. © K. Khabensky
• You know, when I woke up this morning and looked back at my life, I thought: “Should I be afraid to take risks and do what I really want to do, not paying attention to other people's opinions and criticism in my address? Ignoring the imaginary fears that my “smart mind” draws, moving me away from the realization of my desires? Death happens to a hundred people out of a hundred, not to ninety-nine, but to a hundred people. Is it worth worrying about her if the moment comes when she knocks on my door and says: “Well, it's time!”? I think the worst thing is when she knocks on my door, and I, looking back at my life, will be very sorry that I had the opportunity, but I didn’t risk it. That I could approach the girl and get acquainted, but I was afraid that she would send me. That I did not have time to tell my parents how much I love them and do not want them to swear. That I did not quit my boring and uninteresting job and did not dare to open my own business. I will regret that I traveled little and did not take care of my health. Etc. Now, when I have any doubts, I ask myself one question: “What am I afraid of?” and there is no more doubt. © Alexey Demidov
• Every great dream starts with a dreamer. Always remember that you have the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.
• Each of us probably wanted to pick up and leave. Leave the old life, take the first train that came across with a one-way ticket.

• Life is the way. Choose who to go with! © Petr Soldatenkov
• Personally, I don't travel to be somewhere, I travel for movement and fellow travelers. Movement is the most beautiful thing in life. © Robert Louis Stevenson
• We have only a few decades left to live on this earth, and we lose so many irretrievable hours, thinking about grievances that in a year we will forget, and everyone around will forget about them. © Dale Carnegie

• Salvation - in wanderings. The inscription "Fasten your seat belts" lights up - and you are disconnected from problems. Broken armrests rise above broken hearts. © Alex Garland
• If you are crazy enough to do what you love, you are destined to live a life full of meaning.
• What do you need to enjoy life?

- Start traveling!

• Live with joy, with a smile, do not get upset over trifles, love life, then it will love you. Do not think about time, do not count the days, do not listen to the opinions of other people, and do not think that maybe later I will be happy, but you think that “later” may not come, happiness will not wait. Be happy now.
• Do not be afraid of change - otherwise dreams will remain dreams.

Life will fly by like a moment

Appreciate it, take pleasure in it.

As you spend it - so it will pass,

Don't forget: she is your creation.

• Don't forget that the earth delights in feeling your bare feet, and the winds tend to play with your hair... © Khalil Gibran.
• Do not sit at home, move more, travel. The world is magnificent and beautiful, you should see much more than the monitor screen.
• And in my head there is one thought: “You only live once, only once”

Top 10 Movie Travel Quotes

1. 1. See the world around, experience dangers, overcome them, look through walls, be closer, find each other, feel. This is the purpose of life. © Film "The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty"
   2. Everyone says that they dream of getting out of here, seeing the world, but when it comes down to it, they won’t stick out their beak beyond their birdhouse © Cartoon “Wing Wing”
   3. To change the world, you need to see it © m / s "Missing"
   4. Will you come to America with me?

      Yes, even to Africa. © Brat-2

   5. - If you had a lot of time on your watch, what would you do?

      I would stop following. I can say one thing, if I had time - I would not waste it. © In Time

   6. Life is a tango, in which the main thing is movement. If you stop, the dance will stop; if you stop, life will stop. © Scent of a Woman
   7. The journey is important, not the destination. (From the movie “Step Up 3-D”)
   8. The most pleasant moment of the trip is the fees. The barking of a dog is worse than the dog itself. A woman is often more beautiful from the back. My kind can destroy your dreams. (from the animated film Spice and Wolf)
   9. When traveling, it is important not to forget the main thing - when one thing ends, something else begins. From the movie Love Happens
   10. The people you travel with are just as important as the place you go to. These people can make your trip unforgettable. From the movie "Lost in Translation"

Proverbs and sayings about travel, road and tourism

• Whoever travels will know.
• Free will, walking - the way.
• The eyes do not see, and the soul does not know.
• If you want to know a person, take a trip with him.
• If you love your son, send him on a journey.
• Not the one who lived longer knows more, but the one who went further.
• The dunno lies, and the know-it-all runs far.
• Do not be afraid of the road, if your legs were healthy.
• Whoever has been to the sea is not afraid of puddles.
• The road will be mastered by the walking one.
• You will go out on the road - there will be satellites.
• If you do not have enough strength, then at least the desire is commendable.
• On the road, you will call the enemy your own father.
• The road is red with riders, and dinner with pies.
• If the sail is left without wind, it becomes an ordinary fabric.
• If I don't go myself, who will go with me?
• If you're on a boat, don't fight the boatman.
• If you can climb the mountain, don't stay in the valley.
• If you want to go far, start close.
• It is better to see once than hear a thousand times.
• Who has seen a lot knows a lot.
• The road is winding - the truth is straight.
• Each step of the way adds a particle of wisdom.
• Whatever people you come to, you will put on such a hat.
• Shoe the horse first, and then figure out the road.
• You go for a day, and take bread for a week.
• Do your best and leave the rest to fate.
• Home thought is not good for the road.
• Exhaust heat will not go far.
• A smart comrade is half the road.
• Language will bring to Kyiv.
• Where there is a road, there is a path.

Do you like to travel?

Everyone loves to travel. Someone goes on a trip, anticipating exciting adventures. For some, there is nothing better than new exotic dishes. Some experience an irresistible craving for cultural values. Others prefer to silently admire the sunset over the ocean.

As Mark Twain said, “only two things we will regret on our deathbed - that we loved little and traveled little” ...

There are many reasons why travel is beneficial. Traveling is one of the most interesting things that you will remember throughout your life.

Packing up and leaving for a certain amount of time isn't always practical, but travel is more affordable than ever. When there are a lot of opportunities to see unexplored lands, both in one's own country and abroad, it's a sin not to take advantage of them. With the right planning, this is possible even with the smallest budget. Here are ten reasons why you should travel!

1. It's refreshing

How important is the origin of the journey? Your destination is not where you usually eat, sleep, work or play. This is a completely new place with an endless number of new attractions and new activities for you to explore. It's very easy to become a homebody, and it's very boring! So try to break out of the house in the world. Visit other countries or at least a few neighboring cities.

1. It's simple

Yes, this is not an easy walk, but every day it becomes easier and easier to travel. Of course, you should always plan your vacation so that everything goes off without a hitch. Keep your travel documents together, check all your bookings are confirmed, make sure you know how to get from the train station to your accommodation. If you follow just a few simple points of the plan, traveling can be really easy.

1. You open up a world of new things

While traveling, you learn new things about yourself, other people, unusual food, the world in which you live. Traveling is probably the most fun way to learn something new. It's fun to explore the world outside of your small town, so use this opportunity!

1. Everything obeys you

While you are traveling without a guide or group, you are in complete control of where and how to spend your time. It's great to do what you want. Is not it? Traveling gives you a great excuse to discover and explore new interests.

1. You meet new people

Traveling is a great way to meet new people. If you're a tourist type, it's often very easy to find groups of people who follow the same route as you. Hostels designed for those on a budget are a good way to meet new people. There are plenty of other opportunities to meet travelers and locals alike.

1. You acquire new skills

You can acquire a lot of new skills. It could be learning a new language or learning how to knit a knot. Or maybe you learn time management skills just by planning your day. The good thing about traveling is that often you learn new skills without difficulty and without even noticing it.

1. You have something that you are looking forward to

Sometimes it's really nice to have something on your calendar that you're looking forward to. A simple little reminder that in just a couple of weeks you will be on a plane flying to another country or having a road trip. This anticipation and excitement is almost as enjoyable as the trip itself.

1. And something to remember

Photos, memories, memorabilia, whatever you want to remember your trip with. Traveling is wonderful because even if the trip is over, you have the opportunity to remember every moment again and again.

1. Will you try

Traveling is a great way to experiment with new things. You can try ziplining, white water rafting and just relax on the beach if you've never done it before. You will have a lot of opportunities to try something for the first time.

1. It makes you better

Visiting new places is a great way to broaden your horizons. Travelers are more interesting, well-read and often more fun. Surround yourself with those who share your passion for travel and your interests in becoming a citizen of the world. And as a result, you will find yourself gradually getting better.”

I love to travel because travel gives a feeling of complete freedom. Traveling allows you to escape from the “ordinary” life, see what you have only seen in the movies, try new things and meet new people. Traveling awakens love and a thirst for life. Traveling expands our understanding of the world and saturates the soul. Traveling gives you the freedom to be yourself...

Interesting facts that will make you fall in love with travel

• France is the most visited country in the world.
• And the most visited city in the world, according to 2013, is Bangkok.
• Honolulu is the only place in the US that has a Royal Palace.
• Russia is the world's leader in oxygen production.
• France covers the largest number of time zones - 12.
• There are more lakes in Canada than in the whole world.
• Mongolia is one of the most sparsely populated places in the world. Only 4 people for 2.5 kilometers.
• Niger (not to be confused with Nigeria) is the country with the youngest population.
• And India is the most multiethnic country in the world.
• Monaco is smaller than New York Central Park.
• The world's largest hotel - "Izmailovo" in Russia. It can accommodate over 7500 people.
• 99% of Libya is desert.
• The US has the highest prison population.
• Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta is the busiest in the world.
• Approximately 61,000 people are in the sky over the United States at any given time and on any given day. Probably because 1/3 of the world's airports are in the US.
• The resort of San Alfonso Del Mar in Chile has the world's largest swimming pool - 66 million gallons (approximately 249 million liters).
• Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms worldwide.
• The shortest flight lasts two minutes, its route is from the Scottish island of Westray to the island of Papa Westray.
• And the longest flight in the world is from Sydney to Dallas. It lasts about 16 hours and covers approximately 8,500 miles (13,679 km).
• New Guinea has the largest number of languages.
• The book "Around the World in 80 Days" inspired many travelers to break the record of the heroes of the novel.
• James Cook is the first traveler to set foot on every continent (except Antarctica).
• The longest beach in the world is in Bangladesh.
• The most expensive tour in the history of tourism cost exactly twenty million dollars. It was this amount that Tito Denis had to pay in order to become the first space tourists.
• As you know, literally a hundred years ago, only the richest people could go on a trip, but the first tour for not very wealthy citizens was organized at the beginning of 1840. This gave rise to the development of mass tourism in the world.
• At the moment, tours to Thailand are very popular, but few people know that this country owes its popularity, oddly enough, to the Vietnam War. It was at this time that American soldiers were hiding in Thailand.
• According to Forbes magazine, the excursion to the Chernobyl zone is recognized as the most dangerous and interesting excursion, because it is here that you can see such plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else.

Of course, this is not a complete list of the most interesting and informative facts about travel and tourism.

And here, for example, is the story of a real super-grandmother from Krasnoyarsk Yelena Mikhailovna Erkhova or woman Lena (as she calls herself), who, despite her advanced age, leads an active lifestyle and spends all her savings on travel.

Live the way you like! Travel! Open new horizons for yourself, break stereotypes! Life is one - enjoy it!

I discovered solo travel in November 2012. Before that, Tanya and I (then still separately) often went on various excursion tours. But now all those early travels have mixed up in my head into such a mushy mess that, at times, I myself can’t even remember whether I was in a certain city or not. Well, I can, of course. But in order to give some more or less meaningful answer, I need to think for a while. As if those trips were for me just a set of pictures that floated outside the bus window ...

All that I remember from such sightseeing tours, which were organized for us by one or another Travel Company are groups of middle-aged women who constantly asked the organizers of the trip to let them go to some local store.

“Go. But we leave at five. I won’t look for you later,” some regular “tour guide” said, and then in a monotonous voice he again started some kind of hackneyed record in the style of “look to the left - look to the right.”

“This temple, which you will forget in five minutes, was built by order of the king, whose name you will forget even earlier” ...

I listened to such stories and thought to myself: “Maybe I should have run away with those ladies and hide in some local store?”. And then he averted his eyes to look out the window, behind which everyone floated and some pictures floated ...

We met Tanya in May 2012. And six months later, we went with her to ours. I don't even remember now which of the two of us suggested it. The idea was born by itself. And then we discussed some options for a long, long time and named the names of various European cities. Peter is too far. Moscow is too expensive. For or you need to open a visa. And at first, Tanya constantly laughed at the name and pronounced it exclusively with the letter “Y”.

There remained Ukraine, trips to which had not yet acquired political overtones. As a result, very soon we chose Kyiv. And a few days later, on the second attempt (because of my forgotten passport), we bought tickets to our first solo trip.

Our old soapbox photos edited with Pixlr-O-matic. Quality, as you understand, is appropriate.

You know, some bloggers get themselves various travel toys - nesting dolls, dogs, cubs ... And I carry this bag everywhere. Not because I want to stand out. Because I just like her. I have many fond memories of her. Although my mother sincerely believes that I take it with me only because today the inscription "I love Kyiv" has acquired a political connotation.

Okay… What am I talking about?.. Oh yeah, oh independent travel…

After returning from Ukraine, Tanya and I began to travel to different cities much more often. And I have not forgotten these trips. Each of them left behind some emotions, feelings, memories. As if every journey was for us something like a small life that we lived in various cities.

You know, no matter what anyone says, but every city is not just a collection of streets, shops and houses. Each of them is unique. You just need to learn to notice this uniqueness. Independent travel around the world allow us to better understand how different and unlike each other European cities can be. They can be smiling like or gloomy like Charleroi. But, in spite of everything, each of them is remembered by something and forever sinks into the soul. You can travel hundreds of cities in your life. But, despite this, you will still remember each of them forever.

However, I really love solo travel not only for this reason. I have many more different reasons for this...

Five reasons why I love solo travel

• Such trips allow you to better understand a foreign city.– mingle with the crowd and plunge into it with your head. I recently wrote that I always really like to “try on” new cities. I like to introduce myself as a local resident, go to ordinary shops and have breakfast in those cafes that are not in the city center, but on the next street from my house. Probably, this is also why Tanya and I constantly rent apartments on AIRBNB instead of hotels. After all, a hotel room always turns you into a foreigner. As if entering the door of another hotel, you seem to admit that you are not from here. And this is almost the same as looking at the city from the windows of a sightseeing bus - without intersecting with it, without plunging into the maelstrom of its life. As if there is you, and there is he. And there is also a glass bubble that separates you from each other. You feel like Captain Cousteau inside an underwater submersible...
• Solo travel brings freedom. You go where you want and do only what you choose. You know, in many cities of the world there is a certain pool of attractions that are beyond the traditional tourist routes. Such as the Defense district in Paris, ruin bars in Budapest ... For example, I have been to ten times already, but only relatively recently I found out that in addition to numerous shops there is also a real palace, moreover, located right in the city center. Independent travel- give a lot of new discoveries. And no tour can compare with this.

• Such trips are an opportunity to make interesting acquaintances. and see the new city through the eyes of its locals. Only this year we found good friends in Spain and Ukraine. And even met one too nice guy from Poland (Darek, I'm sorry that I deleted you from my Facebook friends). Each such acquaintance is a separate story and a topic for a separate article. Although I have already written about one of these acquaintances once before. Right here - .
• Independent travel is an opportunity to see a new country for what it is. With all its advantages and disadvantages. I don't know if you noticed or not, but the streets/squares and towns that are usually shown to tourists can be very different from the real ones. For example, Egypt for tourists and Egypt for Egyptians are two completely different worlds. Although such examples (albeit not so eloquent).

And the last ... Well, to be honest? ..

• Traveling alone is also a great way to save money.. This summer, Tanya and I organized ourselves a 9-day trip to the Canary Islands. And most recently, I went to Vilnius for a day and a half, giving for it. And the point here is not at all that I am such a super-mega-cool traveler. It's just that the prices of travel companies will always be higher than the prices that you can find for yourself. Like it or not, any travel company is, first of all, a commercial organization. Her goal is to make money on you. Therefore, they a priori cannot sell you tours at cost. Of course, there are exceptions. I personally saw tours to Goa at the price of an air ticket. But such proposals are rather an exception. And exceptions are just confirmation of the rule.

Alright enough. I won't bore you with my chatter. Travel on your own. And be happy. And then, perhaps, our world will be a slightly more pleasant place to live.

Everyone loves to travel. Someone goes on a trip, anticipating exciting adventures. For some, there is nothing better than new exotic dishes. Some experience an irresistible craving for cultural values. Others prefer to silently admire the sunset over the ocean. Everyone's reasons are different. The editors of the site Rough Guides polled readers and compiled a list of 25 statements that encourage you to go on a trip right now.

1. Travel awakens love and lust for life (Amandeep Mathur, Facebook).

2. When you travel, you can try something new every day (@devourmalaga, Twitter).

3. Only in travel can you meet a lot of “own” people who will leave a big imprint and inspire something more (Lee Morgan, Facebook).

4. Traveling is an experience that you would never have at home (Diane Nichols, Facebook).

5. In travel, every new turn is already a memory (@wanderingangel67, Instagram).

6. Travel makes us appreciate what we already have (Judise Gonzales, Facebook).

7. Traveling makes you see the world differently (@Catdui, Twitter).

8. Travel allows you to look at life through new lenses and challenge our concepts of the familiar (@nathanthoen, Instagram).

9. I love to travel because travel gives a feeling of complete freedom. Traveling allows you to escape from the “ordinary” life, see what you have only seen in the movies, try new things and meet new people (Aleksandra Ka, Facebook).

10. Travel expands the world and nourishes the soul (Lynne Nash, Facebook).

11. Traveling is like daydreaming (@Mark_Selleck, Twitter).

12. Travel allows you to learn more than any book can offer (Mary Faith Phillips, Facebook).

13. Only when I travel do I feel truly alive. It inspires new adventures and searches. Traveling helps a lot to awaken a greater interest in life (Andy Haverson, Facebook).

14. Travel gives us a new way of looking at ourselves and the world, it restores our faith in what everyday life has made us doubt (@robynjbell, Twitter).

15. Travel gives you the freedom to be yourself (Jo Swabey, Facebook).

16. Every journey is a challenge to your own mind (Kelly McCann Photography, Facebook).

17. When traveling, everyone remembers that a person is, first of all, an explorer (@rebeccaarosenthal, Instagram).

18. Only when you travel do you realize that you can live differently (Andrew Mcdiarmid, Facebook).

19. Traveling is the best way to learn something new (@jfbartley, Instagram).

20. I love traveling because you get to know and love new cultures, see amazing landscapes and redefine what you already have (Sonia Teruel, Facebook).

21. When you travel, you understand what real freedom is (Angelica Agront, Facebook).

23. I learned a lot more while traveling than at school (Vincent Lim Sui-leong, Facebook).

24. I love traveling because I love how it changes our minds (Kim Ryan, Facebook).

25. I love traveling because it makes me better, my wallet lighter and my life brighter (Ramya Tirumalai, Facebook).