>But that's just me. I love to study history and languages and travelling gives me an excuse to do it. A lot of folks have no interest in that at all, they just heard there are good beaches in Bali or climbing in Nepal or shopping in Milan. I can't imagine that.

"No, we didn't actually see the downtown Venice, you see in this camp just outside of it they had whatever we needed - shops, taverns, beaches, restaurants, bars, well everything; we had absolutely no need to go to the city"