"I
can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than
to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you
are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most
rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street
without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of
interesting guesses."
Bill Bryson, from Neither Here nor There:
Travels in Europe
