Weekly Photo Challenge: Rooms

Jun7

We spent over 10 years in our old home where my favourite room was the kitchen.

My old kitchen

with wooden cupboards and floor

However, I always fancied a white kitchen and our new home has just that. A beautiful white kitchen.

My new white kitchen

So when one door closes, another one is sure to open.

The empty passage

So while I was sorry to say goodbye to Christie Road and left the house feeling nostalgic as memories of family braais, Christmases and parties came rushing over me, I was happy to start a new phase of my life.

Goodbye Christie Road, hello Windsor Avenue!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

Mar29

Aberfeldy, Scotland

Edinburgh Festival

London

Dubai

In Dubai the streets are empty in August, it’s too hot!

Tourist or Traveller?

Mar14

Oxford Dictionaries (through a Google search) describes a tourist as ‘a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure‘ ;

and a traveller is defined as ‘a person who is travelling or who often travels’.

Tourist or Traveller?

Wikipedia defines a tourist as:

1.’someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business’; or

2.’one who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement‘.

It describes a traveller as ‘one who travels, especially to distant lands‘.

I believe that when I’m en route to an exotic destination I’m a traveller and when I get there, I’m a tourist.

Tourists

In this discovery of definitions, I was surprised by Wikipedia’s description of a tourist as:

‘one who visits a place …….. out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement’.

This definition makes a tourist sound like a cold and indifferent individual, doesn’t it? A far better description would be:

‘one who visits a place ……. out of curiosity, thereby increasing their knowledge, understanding and empathy by the observation of different spaces, places, faces and things’ .

Tourist or traveller? You decide.

’til next time…