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Rather than visiting a checklist of tourist sites as efficiently as possible, you may want to consider spending time immersing in the culture using the "slow travel" approach.

'Slow Travel' Might Be The Key To A Better Vacation. Here's What It Is. Travel experts share the benefits of this mindful approach to trips and how to experience it to the fullest.

Have you ever wondered why Americans, people from many other nations in continental Europe, and elsewhere around the globe drive on the right? And why, conversely, do Brits and people from other British colonies drive on the left?

Things always make more sense when you are aware of history!

In the case of the USA, driving on the right goes back to the Eastern Pennsylvania town of Conestoga, where all those wagons were built for America's westward expansion. Napolean, social class, and common forms of movement and conveyance affected Europe's driving decisions. Mass produced automobiles (i.e., horseless carriages) later adopted such norms. The rest, as they say, is history.

Why Americans drive on the right and the British on the left | CNN Business One challenge Americans face when visiting the United Kingdom is learning to drive on the “wrong” side of the road. The British drive on the left side of the road while we, in America, drive on the right side.

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