How to travel differently?

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What happens when you travel by train, slower than by plane?

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By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

50 min

Closure of borders, deleted planes, PCR test… The current health crisis pushes us to question our way of traveling and our vision of elsewhere.

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For some, travel means going far, for others, traveling is meeting the other and it is the time of the journey that matters more than the destination.

There are finally as many reasons to leave as there are travelers.

What do we remember from our trips?

What happens when you travel by train, slower than by plane?

so many questions to ponder…. at the time of the closing of the borders.

With:

Marie-Julie Gagnon

, author and travel journalist, creator of the

Taxi-Brousse blog

, one of the first French-speaking blogs devoted to travel and author of

What remains of our travels?

(The Editions of Man)

David Medioni

, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of

Ernest, an online literary magazine

.

Author of

Being in train

(Éditions de l'Aube)

At the end of the program, a report by

Raphaëlle Constant

who met Luc Barreto.

This former maintenance technician in luxury hotels has converted to an itinerant bookseller in Seine-Saint-Denis.

An ardent militant of reading for all, his commitment takes on its full meaning in times of pandemic.

When everything is closed, the book remains open and connects us to universal culture.

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