and these people vote?

Neither said this. Caffeine made a humorous remark that people that call themselves travellers are, to paraphrase, pretentious.Ringo said that some people may find travelling with a group of others may be more meaningful than seeing a mountain up close, and that the meaning of the experiences are subjective. What is a deeper experience?For instance, most of the time I holiday in Britain. I go camping with a 100 or so friends and family and we play music, sing songs and dance through the night. Is this deeper experience than my honeymoon where we toured central Europe? Is it a deeper experience than my wife's time working in India? What about when I travelled from Atlanta through Alabama to Louisiana and spent time with my family there? If I went to Everest and got frostbite would this be deeper than any of that? How are we quantifying depth?

Hiya!I'm returning to university to study soon, so I might not be posting regular again.Also - I thought it might amuse you that I applied for a job at the BBC recently. I didn't get it. I didn't say it was funny I appreciate that they do different things and have differing experiences. However, what is the 'thing' that caffeine was referring to? 'goes to see a place different from where they live for recreational purpose'. They might go in a different way and do different things when they get there, but they both go and see a place different from where they live for recreation. I appreciate the experiences will be qualitatively different but I'm not sure how one would quantify depth. I'm sure 'travellers' (not people that live in caravans etc) tend to have more interesting (to me) stories to tell, is that how we're measuring it?

I don't think that's quite true, but nevertheless, I agree they are different (Maybe the difference between a Tesla Coil and a thunderstorm). However they share some commonalities. It was two such things that caffeine seems to be saying are common to both (eg they both involve travelling to other places)I don't read him as saying a package holiday to the Algarve is the same as white water rafting in some Amazonian tributary, just that they both involve going somewhere else for fun. Neither the amount of fun, nor the depth of the experience were equalized by his words.I have to say, your reaction to his words kind of work as verification of the truth behind the jest.... It's difficult to explain why you have certain tastes. I'll give a singular answer to a complex question: Novelty. There is more 'new' in such tales, or at least more differences between stories. While it was a wonderful experience eating at the UFO restaurant in Bratislava, fundamentally telling it would be telling a story about a restaurant meal at a restaurant with a novel location. I think a story about removing a leech or hiking twenty seven miles to a hospital because a friend had developed a fever have more characteristics of appealing narrative.Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.