Travel tales: Making lifelong friends across the globe


Be a friendly wanderer and make new friends on your travels. — Pexels

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met” – so goes the old adage often wrongly attributed to Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

Regardless of who birthed the axiom, it is an optimistic reminder that friends can be made anywhere, as long as you make the effort of creating meaningful connections with others.

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