Duration of the trips
Tourist travel is a new invention. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the traveler did it by chance or in search of something, not for pleasure. In fact, travel has been a difficult and arduous challenge throughout history. At a time when no mechanical means had yet been invented, the traveler could move on foot and about 25 kilometers per day, while on horseback about 30. A chronicle from the 16th century indicates that a group had to spend a month to travel the 470 kilometers from Salamanca to Seville. The fastest way to travel or transport were boats, which could travel more than 100 kilometers per day. The industrial revolution changed all this, but slowly: The first steam trains of the 19th century travelled a maximum of 25 kilometers per hour; the 100 kilometers per hour were surpassed by a car in 1899. The first transatlantic flight lasted 54 hours. it was 1919. Today, high-speed trains travel up to 500 kilometers per hour and, the fastest manned aircraft, up to 3500. We have the world more and more accessible, we move faster and faster; maybe we have the bathrobe: we go on a planet that runs at a speed of 100,000 kilometers per hour.
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