Travel for pleasure

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I. I am sure we'll all agree that travelling is one of the most fascinating pas­times. Seeing new places, probably new countries (and why not?!), meeting new people — what could be more interesting? Besides, travel immensely чрезвычайно enlarges one's scope кругозор and so forms an essential part of a person's education.

Yet, different people have different views as to the best ways of travelling. Let us see first what Richard Aldington, the prominent English twentieth-century writ­er, has to say on the point.

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1. a) Read the following:

He also discovered the real meaning of travel. It sounds absurd to speak of a fifteen-mile walk as "travel". But you may go thousands of miles by train and boat between one international hotel and an­other, and not have the sensation of travelling at all. Travel means the consciousness понимание of adventure and exploration исследования, the sense of cover­ing the miles, the ability to seize охватить indefatigably неутомимо upon every new or familiar source of delight. Hence the отсюда horror of tourism , which is a conventionalizing придавая условный характер, a codification , of adventure and exploration — which is absurd . Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else — above all, a travel bureau — arrange устраивать everything beforehand заблаговременно? It isn't seeing new and beautiful things which matters имеют значение, it's seeing them for yourself. And if you want the sensation of cover­ing the miles, go on foot. Three hundred miles on foot in three weeks give you infinitely more sense of travel, show you infinitely more surprising and beautiful experiences, than thirty thousand miles of mechanical transport .

(From: "Death of a Hero" by R. Aldington)

b) Explain the following:

1.Travel means the consciousness понимание of adventure and exploration...

2.Hence the horror of tourism , which is a conventionalizing , a codification , of adventure and exploration...