Travel philosophy Archives - Duff's Suitcase /travel-philosophy/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:55:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 On looking out of the plane window /looking-plane-window/ /looking-plane-window/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:55:35 +0000 /?p=4663 In the space of just over a hundred years, we’ve gone from the world’s first commercial flight (with just one paying passenger on a 40-kilometre route in Florida which took 23 minutes) to the dawn of space tourism. On average, eight million people fly somewhere every day. Today, the longest non-stop flight in the world […]

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]]> /looking-plane-window/feed/ 2 A green resolution for 2016 /a-green-resolution-for-2016/ /a-green-resolution-for-2016/#respond Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:09:36 +0000 /?p=4658 Lose weight, get fit, quit smoking, travel more: these are our most commonly made (and broken) resolutions at the beginning of each new year. What doesn’t make it onto the usual list but should be there is: spend more time in nature. Currently more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and […]

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]]> /a-green-resolution-for-2016/feed/ 0 On ditching the travel bucket list /ditching-travel-bucket-list/ /ditching-travel-bucket-list/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:53:02 +0000 /?p=4409 In the 2007 film The Bucket List, two terminally ill characters played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman meet in a cancer ward, which they escape to do a road trip to tick off their wish list of things to do, including seeing the Taj Mahal and skydiving, before they die. Since then the term […]

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]]> /ditching-travel-bucket-list/feed/ 2 Shoot less, remember more /shoot-less-remember-more/ /shoot-less-remember-more/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:28:43 +0000 /?p=4407 Going trigger happy on holidays and shooting hundreds of photos may not be the best way of remembering those special moments you experience – doing a beautiful hike, taking in an idyllic sunset on the beach or standing in front of a famous view. In a recent study, a group of students went to an art […]

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]]> /shoot-less-remember-more/feed/ 2 Why you should spend money on travel rather than things /why-you-should-spend-money-on-travel-rather-than-things/ /why-you-should-spend-money-on-travel-rather-than-things/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:34:08 +0000 /?p=4405 Want to be happier? It’s simple: buy less material things and spend more money on experiences, like travel. This route to contentment is backed up by science: over the past decade psychologists have done extensive research and studies into why experiences make us happier than things. Most of us have finite amounts of wealth and […]

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