Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some are about suffering. There are as many different kinds of travel books as there are novels. People think a travel book is one thing. It's many things.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.