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Travel

Thursday, March 13th 2014

Travel (verb)
Travelled / traveled / travelling / traveling
I.
Going to another place (in general).
I really like to travel.
I love to travel during the summer holidays.
He travels frequently for work.
My sister is currently travelling through South America.
I love to travel during the summer holidays.
This year I plan to travel all over Japan.

Travel (noun): can be used to describe the act of traveling in general.
Travel in that region of the country is dangerous.
World travel gives you a new perspective.

Incorrect uses of travel
How was your travel? How was your trip? not general
Im planning a travel to the U.S. next year.
Im planning to travel to the U.S. next year.
Im planning a trip to the U.S. next year.

Journey (noun)
I.
A journey is one single piece of travel (going from one place to another)
usually a long distance.
The journey from London to Newcastle by train can now be completed in
under three hours.
The journey takes 3 hours by plane or 28 hours by bus.
He made the 200-mile journey by bike.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step
- Lao-tze, Tao Te Ching

II.
We can talk about journeys taking or lasting a long time:
How long did your journey take?
o Oh, it lasted for ever. We stopped at every small station.

III.
We can also use journey in a more metaphorical way to talk about progress in life:
He has overcome a lot of problems on his spiritual journey.
My uncle is an alcoholic, but hes beginning the journey of recovery.

IV.
We occasionally use journey as a verb as an alternative to travel, although it may
sound a bit formal or poetic:
We journeyed /travelled between the pyramids in Mexico on horseback.

Note: the plural is spelt: journeys NOT journies

Trip (noun)
I.
A trip usually involves more than one single journey.
We took a five-day trip to the Amazon. (In the Amazon we travelled to
many different towns and villages.)
Youre back from vacation! How was your trip?

II.
The act of going to another place (often for a short period of time) and returning.
Its hot today lets take a trip to the beach!

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III.

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We make journeys usually, but we go on trips or take trips

I went on a trip to Okinawa last summer.
Im going a trip to America next year.
He took a trip to China.

IV.

We talk about day trips, round trips and business trips.

A round-trip ticket is a ticket for going and coming back.
A one-way ticket is only for going.
I went on a day trip to France. We left at 6.30 in the morning and returned
before midnight the same day.
The round-trip ticket enabled me to visit all the major tourist destinations in
India.
Where's Laurie?
o He won't be in this week. He's gone on a business trip to Malaysia and
Singapore.

v The trip went well. It was an old car, but we didn't break down in four weeks of
travelling.


Expedition (noun)
I.
An expedition is an organised trip whose purpose is usually scientific exploration
of the environment.
You go on expeditions, just as you go on trips.
Numerous expeditions to The Antarctic have ended in disaster.
Are you going to join the expedition up the Amazon this year, like the one
Tom went on last year?


II.
Less dangerous and less adventurous are shopping expeditions when you are
hunting down particular goods or bargains and fishing expeditions when you go in
search of fish that are not easy to locate or catch.

Safari (noun)
I.
A safari is a trip or expedition to observe wild animals in their natural habitat in
Africa, usually.
You go on safari to safari parks.
His dream was to go on safari to Kenya to photograph lions and tigers.


Cruise (noun and verb)
I.
A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number
of places en route.
They cruised all around the Mediterranean for eight weeks last summer and
stopped off at a number of uninhabited islands.
My parents have seen nothing of the world so they are saving up to go on a
world cruise when they retire.
They are hoping to take a trip on the cruise liner, the QE2, in 2004.

Voyage (noun)
I.
A voyage is a long journey, not necessarily for pleasure, on a ship.
We don't talk about voyages very much in the present time, but historically they were very
significant.
His second voyage (1493 - 96) led to the discovery of several Caribbean
islands.
On his third voyage (1498 - 1500) he discovered the South American

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mainland. (Christopher Columbus, the great explorer)