9 years ago
The peculiar despair of the hotel room
Travel is supposed to make us feel more alive so why is the hotel room a place of such loneliness and despair? There was a period in my life when I spent a lot of time in hotel rooms. It was normal to skit from Shanghai to Dublin via Vilnius and Rome in a month, and then begin the loop all over again: Athens, Novosibirsk, Kuala Lumpur. I travelled alone to these cities and when I got there I was required to stand on stages, sit on panels and talk endlessly.
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