My room, my books, my house, the garden, my interest in everything around me renewed by absence. This little world suddenly special, no longer common… - Michael Palin

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My room, my books, my house, the garden, my interest in everything around me renewed by absence. This little world suddenly special, no longer commonplace … something to relish. It’s a remarkable feeling and one which I count as paradoxically one of the great pleasures of travel. The almost sensuous delight in the ordinary and commonplace.