Travel is an expression of curiosity, says the author Pico Iyer, and the pandemic's restrictions have increased the near-universal longing to head out
A scientist stands framed in a window of a Spanish base on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica.Just as the coronavirus began to seep into our consciousness early last year, I found myself sailing around Antarctica. I’m generally an urban creature, and having enjoyed watching 1.5 million penguins once in Patagonia, and spending midwinter weeks in Alaska, gazing out over miles of snow, I hadn’t been so excited in advance.
For me, as for many, the pandemic has revealed how much can be seen and done close to home; I’ve relished the chance to explore the hills around my mother’s house, as I hadn’t done in half a century of spending time there. In Japan, I’ve discovered bamboo forests only minutes from the apartment where I’ve stayed for more than a hundred seasons.
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