Philosophic Travel

Road to Morocco diary | The crossing | Economist.com: "What is a holiday? It is more a ritual than a real rest. It is a time when you want to feel free, but you aren’t, not really, and not only if you are unwise enough to take your BlackBerry with you. Your holiday does not comprise the things you would do if all your time was your own; it is what you choose to do because most of it isn’t. For some people, us included, holidays are when we try to find and taste some of the things that our own, supposedly advanced nations have lost: spontaneity, exuberance, craftsmanship. A holiday is sweetened and soured at once by the knowledge of its brevity. Whatever holidays are for, and whatever they mean, today, I think, was about as good as they can get."

Spot on, as usual, Mr. Correspondent.