Digital detox, savouring silence: How to escape the crowds when travelling

By Louise Southerden
October 18 2014 - 12:15am
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.
Tranquillity: Travelling to quiet, calm places can be restorative for the senses.

I'm halfway to Kathmandu when it hits me. Listening to metal chair legs scrape on the tiled floor of the food court in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport, babies screaming and several Russians deep in vigorous conversation, I get a sudden urge to abandon my journey, crash through the floor-to-ceiling windows and trade places with the gardener calmly watering the grass and the plants outside.

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