How many times have we heard this in our childhood, who knows: "Does the one who reads a lot know, or the one who travels a lot?" More than the answer, it seemed like the question itself was important. The question was posed with a seriousness as if there was a profound dilemma. Each time, we were expected to answer, "The one who reads a lot!" It seems that our elementary school teachers tried to increase our love for reading in this way. As if reading a lot and traveling a lot could never be placed side by side...


As someone who loves both reading and traveling, I would find myself divided. I could never warm up to this artificial dilemma, because I believed that reading is an inner journey, and I thought that each book takes us on a different adventure... Reading while traveling is possible, making a journey to another environment, another life, by considering each book as a separate adventure. While traveling, it is also possible to read the world by thinking of every person and every life as a book. Reading and traveling are actually so intertwined...