Imagine yourself back in the late 70’s: You love your home, your street, mom’s cooking is such a treat! Then, you took a trip, first time on another country. It’s a whole new world! The streets are different, all the food you eat an unexpected explosion of new sensations in your tongue, even the sunlight hits different, it’s all new, like that smell on a new car.
The turn of the century has brought so many advancements, many of them made it easier than ever to bring and take stuff all over the world, it keeps getting easier to eat “San Francisco Sourdough bread” without leaving your city, you can buy that impressive Persian Rug in New York and so on… Fading that sense of wonder we used to get from encountering a whole other culture.
And this is what I love to emphasize in my posts: The really local, un-influenced stuff: food, fun, traditions, art, anything that’s really belonging to the area where it’s found.
Modern travel has made the world smaller, reachable, but it should not make it more homogenoeus. Post like these should make it easier for others to experience a location, like a local.
