Comings and goings
Once upon a time, not quite so long ago, people travelled only rarely and only for specific reasons. Back then, the focus of travelling was divided into two according to the travellers' social and economic status: rich people travelled for the joy of travelling itself, whereas the poor travelled in order to arrive somewhere. The love of travelling as a leisurely activity has left us tales of sumptuous trains and ships – think Orient Express and Titanic; tales of mystery and romance – Agatha Christie, for example, or the homonymous film about the sinking goliath; tales of artistic and courageous development – the Romantics travelling to sing to Etruscan urns, or the Arthurian legends; tales, oh so many tales! Stories we love, we envy, and which we cannot really give up. They are stories of lives unlike our own, of people so decadent in their daily existence they could spend time in a suspended state between here and there. They are stories that tell us that what matters is not whe...