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Shot taken along a walk around Devohat market.

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It's time to leave. I need to leave and discover something new. To cut for a while and breath new air, taste new flavours and meeting new people.
Need to talk another language and cast away, flying high, towards a new dream.
Nicolas Bouvier in his beautiful book "l'usage du monde" described in this way the desire of travelling:

"It’s the silent contemplation of the atlases lay down with belly on a carpet, between the ten and thirteen years, that grow the wish to leave all. You start thinking at regions like It is found again to think to us next to regions like the Banat, Kashmir, or the Caspian; to the music that resound, to the sights you will meet, to the ideas that will wait for you… When this desire resists to the first attacks of the good sense, you start to find some excuses. But are just for a song excuses. The truth is that you don’t know how to call what is pushing you. Something in you grows and cast off the moorings, till the day in which, without many confidences, you finally leave. A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you".

"C'est la contemplation silencieuse des atlas, à plat-ventre sur le tapis, entre dix et treize ans, qui donne ainsi l'envie de tout planter là. Songez à des régions comme le Banat, la Caspienne, le Cachemire, aux musiques qui y résonnent, aux regards qu'on y croise, aux idées qui vous y attendent... Lorsque le désir résiste aux premières atteintes du bon sens, on lui cherche des raisons. Et on en trouve qui ne valent rien. La vérité, c'est qu'on ne sait comment nommer ce qui vous pousse. Quelque chose en vous grandit et détache les amarres, jusqu'au jour où, pas trop sûr de soi, on s'en va pour de bon. Un voyage se passe de motifs. Il ne tarde pas à prouver qu'il se suffit à lui-même. On croit qu'on va faire un voyage, mais bientôt c'est le voyage qui vous fait, ou vous défait".

"E' la contemplazione silenziosa degli atlanti su un tappeto a pancia in giù, tra i dieci e i tredici anni, che dà la voglia di piantar tutto. Ci si ritrova a pensare a regioni come il Banato, il Kashmir, o il Caspio; alle musiche che vi risuonano, agli sguardi che si incontrano, alle idee che vi aspettano... Quando poi il desiderio resiste ai primi attacchi del buon senso, si inventano delle scuse. Ma non ne trovate che da quattro soldi. La verità é che non sapete come chiamare ciò che vi spinge. Qualcosa in voi cresce e molla gli ormeggi, fino al giorno in cui, senza tante sicurezze, partite per davvero.
Un viaggio non ha bisogno di motivi. Non ci mette molto a dimostrare che si giustifica da solo. Pensate di andare a fare un viaggio, ma subito é il viaggio che vi fa, o vi sfa".

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