parts along with thousands of fellow-sufferers not because he is
interested in or attracted by the place he is bound for, nor because he can
afford to go, but simply because he cannot afford not to. The disease is
highly infectious. Nowadays you catch foreign travel rather as you
caught influenza in the twenties, only more so.
The result is that in the summer months (and in the last few years
also during the winter season) everybody is on the move. In Positano
you hear no Italian but only German (for England is not the only victim
of the disease), in some French parts you cannot get along unless you
speak American, and the official language of the Costa Bravo is English.
What is the aim of all this travelling? Each nationality has its own
different one. The Americans want to take photographs of themselves in:
