We all suffer the pangs of nostalgia, but the world doesn’t stay still – the place you remember with rosy memories won’t be the same when you revisit.
“I went back to Barcelona last year and it was so disappointing, it just wasn’t like it was in 1991.” How often have you heard that?
If not Barcelona then Bali, London’s Notting Hill or that gorgeous little Thai guesthouse on the beach in Phuket that did an awesome chilli crab.We all suffer the pangs of nostalgia, but the world doesn’t stay still. Whether it was 40, 20 or five years ago, the place you remember with rosy memories won’t be the same when you revisit. I saw theone bitter December day in Paris in 1976 and, apart from my girlfriend and I, there were probably six other people in the room.
Same goes for sunset from Oia on Greece’s Santorini, the villages of the Cinque Terre in Italy and Mont Saint-Michel on the Normandy coast, so relentless has travellers’ box-ticking pursuit of the bucket-list wonders become. Bali, Phuket, Naples and the Croatian coast have changed beyond all recognition in the past two decades. Our presence has done that, and transformed some lives.
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