The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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