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What are the most important lessons you have learned from travelling to different countries?

For me, don't judge a book by its cover. Do not stereotype based on somebody else's experience and form your own opinion.

One particular experience is my trip to Pakistan. I wrote a story about it here. How very wrong I was to the actual way people live their life.

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helensusanswift · 31-35, F

Completely agree with you! People in most countries are friendly in my experience, if you try to talk to them. I found the folk in Jerusalem, away from the tourist areas, very friendly, while Lisbon was friendly all over. Italians are brilliant, French not bad - Germans were OK as well - so far I have never been in a country where people in general are 'un'- friendly.

Random1Thoughts · F

@helensusanswift
Likewise, I'm from Europe so I've probably travelled to every inch of Europe and found them to be friendly.

Before I traveled to Pakistan, I had this theory that someone was going to kidnap me, all the women are covered from head to toe and only their eyes were visible. Talibans are freely roaming in pick up trucks with ak47 attached and ready to be fired.

I was so wrong, so very very wrong. Stereotype vanished in thin air. The people were so very friendly.

helensusanswift · 31-35, F

@Random1Thoughts I have never been to Pakistan but I have worked with Pakistanis and (shock, horror) they are just like everybody else! Some good, some not so good, some friendly, some not so friendly - in other words human beings. To misquote Kipling 'most remarkably like us'.

Random1Thoughts · F

@helensusanswift
Exactly!