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The Seven Joys of Travel, From a Joyful Traveler

By Dave Seminara

• May 7, 2016

Thomas Swick has been a farmhand in Alsace, an English teacher in Poland and a journalist at newspapers like The Sun-Sentinel, in South Florida, where he was travel editor for 19 years. In a genre now saturated with destination marketers masquerading as travel writers, Mr. Swick stands out as a perceptive, old-school travel writer whose prose brings celebrated and obscure destinations to life. In his new book “ The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them” Mr. Swick draws on a lifetime of travel wisdom and experiences in sharing his seven pleasures of travel: anticipation, emotional connection, movement, novelty, discovery, break from routine and heightened appreciation of home. Following are edited excerpts from a conversation with him.

Q. You wrote in the chapter on anticipation, “Long ago I realized that if I was feeling low, as if life no longer held any interest, it was because I had no trips planned.” Do you still need to have a trip on the horizon to be content?

A. I really want to have a trip to look forward to. I live in Florida, and I don’t have to suffer through long winters, but in the summer we yearn to get away from the heat and humidity. I love the idea of getting away from the routine, the sameness of everyday life.

You write that trains are a voyeuristic pleasure — “as close as we get to the fantasy of dying and then looking down on the action,” but on buses, “You can talk to people, but they’re not always the people you want to talk to.’’

There are some countries, like Mexico, that have very luxurious buses. But it’s still not romantic. The train goes its own way, it has its own tracks, it shows you the backs of things in a way that buses don’t. It’s hard to romanticize bus travel. On planes and ships, they take you away from the world, and you’re surrounded by nothingness, sea or sky, but on a train you’re escaping the world, but you’re going through the middle of towns where people have to stop and wait for your passage. Sitting in the dining car, looking up from your breakfast, watching places go by, it’s a wonderful experience.

You’ve been both a traveler and an expatriate. You wrote, “Living abroad is the travel equivalent of monogamy,” but while travelers are rewarded with novelty, do they “miss out on the intimacy and insights” an expatriate gets from a lengthy stay?

I haven’t lived abroad since I left Poland in 1982. But when I travel now, I try to replicate that experience of being an expat, not just seeing the sights but trying to get beneath the surface of a place, figuring out what it’s like to live there. I’ve found that the places that are comfortable to live in aren’t always the most interesting to visit.

One of your joys of travel is making emotional connections with the people we meet on the road. Is there one country in particular where you’ve found it easy to make these kinds of connections?

Brazil stands out. I found the Brazilians to be incredibly open. Brazil is the only place I’ve been to where you call people about getting together, and they say, “Sure, how about tonight?” It’s usually the less visited, less glamorous places where it’s easiest to meet people. Or it could be in an out-of-the-way place in a popular country like France or Italy.

In an era of instant communication, is it harder to experience the heightened appreciation of one’s home, another of your joys?

The distance from home is shorter. I feel sorry for young travelers today who probably won’t experience that feeling of going somewhere and feeling completely cut off from everyone they know and being in a new place where they are on their own and have to fend for themselves. That allows you to understand home better than if you are constantly in touch with it.

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And stories that illuminate them, thomas swick.

• April 24, 2018
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"A perceptive, old-school travel writer whose prose brings celebrated and obscure destinations to life." — The New York Times " The Joys of Travel is itself a joy." —Paul Theroux, New York Times bestselling author of Deep South In The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them , veteran travel writer Thomas Swick reflects on what he has identified as “the seven joys of travel”: anticipation, movement, break from routine, novelty, discovery, emotional connection, and heightened appreciation of home. Coupled with the personal essays are seven true stories that illustrate these joys. Each details the author’s experience visiting destinations across the globe, including Munich, Bangkok, Sicily, Iowa, and Key West. The Joys of Travel awakens readers to pleasures that, as travelers, they may be taking for granted, and shows non-travelers what they’ve been missing. It offers tips on how people can get the most out of their trips, including strategies for meeting locals, and examines how various modes of transportation affect a traveler’s experience. Throughout this enlightening memoir, Swick also supplies readers with the titles of travel classics that will not only prepare them for the places they visit, but make those places more meaningful once they arrive. Before your next trip, be it a family vacation or a backpacking tour of Europe, read The Joys of Travel . It will inspire you to get the most out of your time away from home—and to get away more often.

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The Joys of Travel  awakens readers to pleasures that, as travelers, they may be taking for granted, and shows non-travelers what they’ve been missing. It offers tips on how people can get the most out of their trips, including strategies for meeting locals, and examines how various modes of transportation affect a traveler’s experience. Throughout this enlightening memoir, Swick also supplies readers with the titles of travel classics that will not only prepare them for the places they visit, but make those places more meaningful once they arrive.

Before your next trip, be it a family vacation or a backpacking tour of Europe, read The Joys of Travel . It will inspire you to get the most out of your time away from home—and to get away more often.

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“It’s not the arrival,” they always tell you, “it’s the journey that matters.” However, sometimes it’s neither. Sometimes it’s your hotel.

The taxi from the airport eased off the expressway and made a U-turn onto an auxiliary road. It slalomed along the sloping driveway of a darkened high-rise and made a sharp right past a lineup of food stalls—a few were still lit by bare electric bulbs, though it was well past midnight. Finally, we came to a halt at the end of a cul-de-sac in front of a facade of scaffold-like concrete that gave the upper floors a caged look. No sign identified the building; the cabbie seemed as perplexed as I was. Then I noticed the message next to the entrance: Sex Tourists Not Welcome —and I knew that I had found the right place.

Months earlier, I had asked an acquaintance then living in Thailand if he had any hotel suggestions for Bangkok, and he had immediately recommended The Atlanta. The rooms were Spartan, he warned, but the Art Deco lobby had barely been touched since the opening in 1952, and the restaurant—where Queen Ramphaiphanni had regularly dined—was still excellent. Big band music played in both rooms. The owner, Dr. Charles Henn, was a friend to writers, and displayed books written by guests in the hotel’s lobby. Also, he had an aversion to shaking hands.

I had then checked the hotel website. A picture of the lobby—staff stationed behind the arched eyebrows of matching reception desks, a bouqueted roundabout centerpieced in a checkerboard sea—levitated above the words: Bangkok’s bastion of wholesome and culturally sensitive tourism. Le patron mange ici. Not far below ran a line I was soon quoting to friends, neighbors, anyone who asked about my upcoming trip: The Atlanta is untouched by pop culture and post-modern vulgarity.

The hotel philosophy on global love for sale was stated farther down: The Atlanta is against sex tourism. Sex tourism is exploitive, socially damaging and culturally demeaning: those who want to buy sex should do so in their own country. This was followed by a condemnation of all illegal activities on hotel premises, concluding with the recommendation: Those who cannot go abroad without behaving badly should stay home.

Quietly, I rolled my suitcase into the dimly lit lobby. A thin gray cat lazily licked himself on the roundabout. The night receptionist took my name and asked for payment. I had received a long, single-spaced letter from a Roger Le Phoque, “private secretary to Dr. Charles Henn,” confirming my reservation and delineating some of The Atlanta’s unorthodoxies, including its policy of accepting neither credit cards nor foreign currencies. However, nothing had been mentioned about payment upon arrival. I had some change from the taxi and three Thai words, mai pen rai, meaning, more or less, “not to worry.” The receptionist said I could pay in the morning.

Blurrily, I climbed the wraparound staircase, passing on the landing a sign from which the phrase “catamites or prostitutes” jumped out. I had not come across this term for a particular type of boy since reading the opening sentence of Anthony Burgess’s 1980 novel Earthly Powers: “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” Any hotel that reminds you of literary genius is worth the price.

The price was five hundred baht which, with 7 percent tax, came to approximately $13.70 a night.

A Pink and Yellow Hotel Room

In the morning, I awoke in a room painted pink and yellow. The air-conditioner hummed reassuringly. Low windows looked out, through the discolored concrete cage, onto the modern apartment house across the street. I took a hot shower with a hand-held nozzle in a curtain-less tub and then, when dressed, went down for breakfast.

The restaurant had the same cool, unperturbed look as the lobby. At the far end was a small annex with books, videos, and the Times Literary Supplement on wooden sticks. Waitresses shuffled about in loose-fitting blouses and conservative skirts. Small black-and-white photographs of Siam lined the walls, ceiling fans rotated, baroque music played softly.

An expressionless waitress brought me a menu. The cover read: The Menu of The Atlanta. Please do not remove. There are only three copies of this menu. I remembered the website had proudly proclaimed this to be “the world’s first menu with serious and learned annotations.” The first page, however, contained no list of foods, just another pronouncement against prostitutes.

Please, I thought, not at breakfast. Still, I took out my notebook. The waitress walked over with a censorious look on her face. I quickly checked to see if I had unthinkingly brought a catamite to dine. Then the waitress told me I was not allowed to write, and looking down at the bottom of the cover I read: Copyright 2003. No part of this menu may be reproduced.

Properly chastised, I ordered. My pineapple shake arrived on a coaster of The Atlanta. ZERO TOLERANCE & SLEAZE FREE ZONE, it read. NO SEX TOURISTS, JUNKIES, LOUTS & OTHER DEGENERATES.

The reverse side was filled with script:

“There are local expats who walk in with what is obviously a bargirl. They ignore the sign by the entrance and are oblivious to the ethos of the hotel. They think they can go anywhere and do what they like because they are farangs [foreigners]—they have been spoilt by the tolerant and non-confrontational Thais. Once here, within these walls, they feel offended if resident guests give them disapproving looks and when the staff do not make them feel welcome. They then pompously say the bargirl is their wife! Courtesy prevents me from asking the unfortunate bargirl what desperation drove her to marry that loser.” —Dr. Henn in conversation with a writer.

Number 5 of an indefinite set.

While eating my pork with pickled radish and rice I thought that, to all the other Atlanta superlatives—“the oldest unaltered hotel foyer in Thailand,” “the world’s largest selection of Thai vegetarian dishes”—“the world’s most didactic hotel” could surely be added. All hotels have rules; this one had a code of ethics.

The trendy ones have attitude; The Atlanta had morality. In some ways it reminded me of an English boarding school—the hushed public spaces, the classical music, the books and journals scattered about, the overriding presence of a stern, but wry, headmaster—that for some strange reason served gourmet meals. My breakfast was ambrosial.

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Tiffany & Co. — which has taken over the house for nearly a month, not only for a series of parties but also for meetings with private clients — put its own stamp on the storied property. Long known for its coral paint color, the Beverly Estate (which was purchased by billionaire Nicolas Berggruen in 2021 for $63 million) was repainted by the luxury house in an eggshell color, with the word Tiffany — in Tiffany blue of course — highlighted in a few prominent spots.

Inside the house, which was also staged with furniture, three rooms were transformed into on-site jewelry showrooms, all of which showcased the new Céleste collection. The 157 pieces are offered at an average price of “close to a million if not above,” as Nathalie Verdeille, Tiffany & Co. chief artistic director of jewelry and high jewelry, shared with WWD .

When a rep for the house steered Union toward one display, saying “we have some pieces that go with your necklace,” the actress took a look and beamed, “It’s the rest of the family.”

While in 2023 Tiffany & Co. plumbed the depths of the seas for its Blue Book inspirations, for 2024, the jewelry house looked to the heavens to create Tiffany Céleste, a collection that interprets the sun, moon, stars and the galaxies beyond in diamonds, gold, platinum and gemstones.

Many of the celestial-themed jewels were conceived by famed designer Jean Schlumberger, whose tenure with Tiffany & Co. began in 1956 and lasted until his death in 1987. His talent was so prolific, the high-jewelry workshops in the jeweler’s Fifth Avenue Landmark building continue to produce new pieces based on his archived sketches, many featuring signature elements that range from nature motifs to artful settings that mix yellow gold and platinum.

As guests perused the 2024 Blue Book collection exhibited throughout the Beverly Estate, many sported both classic Blue Book pieces and designs from 2023’s Out of the Blue. Usher wore a pair of Schlumberger’s iconic Bird on a Rock brooches, while Emily Blunt donned the designer’s Tiffany Floret necklace, a showcase of turquoise stones totaling more than 105 carats, surrounded by diamonds and set in platinum and 18-karat yellow gold.

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The roughly 150 guests sat at two long tables for dinner on a terrace overlooking the home’s gardens.

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