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Share your views on how travelling can be a hobby.
Solution
In my opinion, travelling can be a hobby if one considers it to be a source of inspiration. The new elements of different cultures that one encounters during one’s travels can help that person locate his/her areas of interest. For example, if one likes the architecture of a particular place, he/she could travel to other places with similar architectural patterns and understand the reasons behind such similarities. Likewise, travel can be a hobby if one is keen to explore the rich cultural backgrounds of a nation, thus enriching one’s knowledge about a country’s people, food, religious practices, etc. Travel can be an opportunity to delve deeper into communities different from one’s own, thus broadening a person’s outlook about different cultures. This is how travelling can be a hobby.
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