The Travel Diaries · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Author Caitlin Moran questions the transformative power of travel, suggesting people often ask too much of it. While acknowledging travel's value in breaking routine, she notes that the search for difference often leads to the discovery of universal similarities in people worldwide.
“Can travel really change how we feel? Or whether sometimes we just simply ask too much of a holiday or of a place to give us that innate shift in ourselves?”
“So I think travel is, is very important, you want that break from routine. Go and see what other people are doing in the world. And what we tend to do is go looking for difference. We want to go somewhere different and meet different people and live a different life. And what you notice by day two or three is that you're looking for the similarities. Like people are the same everywhere.”
“We kind of, we realize that wherever you travel, there you are.”