{"id":5388,"date":"2003-05-27T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/wordpress\/now\/2003\/05\/27\/the-art-of-travel\/"},"modified":"2003-05-27T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2003-05-27T07:58:41","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/2003\/05\/27\/travel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/images\/titles\/title_books.png\" alt=\"books\" width=\"25\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">The new book The Art of Travel by Swiss writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaindebotton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alain de Botton<\/a> is an inspiring <em>carnet de voyages<\/em>, that has little in common with a regular travel guide. In five chapters he connects people to places, philosophizing on the act of travel.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375420827\/stefandevries-21\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/images\/books\/debottontravel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Art of Travel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Botton sketches a fascinating and concise portrait of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-potsdam.de\/u\/romanistik\/humboldt\/index_eg.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander von Humboldt<\/a>, an inspiring and unstoppable explorer in the classical sense of the word. Every subject is treated in a relatively compact way, and opens new horizons on very diverse people and places throughout history, just like should be the objective of any dedicated traveller (as opposed to all tourists <em>sin cogitatio<\/em>). I like the way De Botton zaps from philosophy to daily life, while entertaining us with his own experiences in remote and obscure places like Amsterdam and Barbados. But I sometimes get annoyed by his &#8216;ennui&#8217;. For exemple, he is a little afraid to go out eating alone in a restaurant in Madrid, and the next day he has troubles getting out of bed, something which I find very strange, since Madrid is probably my favourite city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The illustrations are a little dull, all of them in black and white, and all the photos are taken by the author. De Botton is a better writer than photographer, but his book is an entertaining and educating travel companion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new book The Art of Travel by Swiss writer Alain de Botton is an inspiring carnet de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"tags":[759],"class_list":{"0":"post-5388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-travels","9":"cs-entry","10":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}