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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. So said the famous nineteenth century Scottish author,  Robert Louis Stevenson, who certainly knew a thing or two about travelling. Born in Edinburgh and suffering from ill health all his life, he was only too glad to forsake the 'draughty parallelograms' of that chilly city's New Town, with its grid of Georgian terraces.  He and his long-suffering wife braved many voyages to what was then called 'The New World'. In the last years of his life, he lived in the merciful climes of Western Samoa, where he was known and loved as 'The Tusitala'  (the storyteller). He is buried there, a quotation from his own poem on his tombstone:                                      Home is the sailor from the sea  ...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. So said the famous nineteenth century Scottish author,  Robert Louis Stevenson, who certainly knew a thing or two about travelling. Born in Edinburgh and suffering from ill health all his life, he was only too glad to forsake the 'draughty parallelograms' of that chilly city's New Town, with its grid of Georgian terraces.  He and his long-suffering wife braved many voyages to what was then called 'The New World'. In the last years of his life, he lived in the merciful climes of Western Samoa, where he was known and loved as 'The Tusitala'  (the storyteller). He is buried there, a quotation from his own poem on his tombstone:                                      Home is the sailor from the sea  ...