I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing to…

Bill Bryson
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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place. ✨ Neither Here Nor There. Book by Bill Bryson, 2012.
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