Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.

What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.