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Why do we travel?

Why do people travel? Well, without getting too philosophical about it, people travel to get away from themselves, to redefine themselves, and to escape from daily routine. Scientists discovered that even a slight modification from everyday routine like taking a different route to work can help to better cope with stress and even stave off an Alzheimer's disease by reprogramming very complicated brain connections known as pathways. Traveling to faraway destinations is even a better way to get rid of stress and depression. We run in a daily rat race knocking off barriers and jumping over obstacles. Week after week nothing seems to change. We wake up, go thorough the daily routine and by the end of the day collapse exhausted in bed to wake up and receive another dosage of the same the following morning. Is there more to life? Is there a more fulfilling way to live? What is happiness after all? If you, like millions of others, wake up with this type of questions going t

Traveling and Money

How would you know what sum of money you need to spend your vacations unforgettably? It's been almost ten years since crowds of Russians began to scurry about the world. And during all this time they keep surprising foreign travel agents. The latter stare at Russians in amazement of their brevity. Just think - who will ever dare going to the country after terrorist attacks or during a natural disaster? Sure enough it will be Russians! Tourist agencies even stopped cutting the prices. Why? Crazy Russians will buy it anyway! But there is one more special national feature about Russians - to take cash with them everywhere. We are not talking about Turkish villages where plastic cards and traveler's cheques are, so to say, not welcomed. Our countrymen manage to buy mink fur coats in Rome paying the whole sum by cash! To be fair, we admit that gradually, though slowly, this situation is changing. There are enough citizens who now prefer a plastic card to a pile of cash. However, th