Walking around

Praschl has this illustration from Simon Pope´s witty book London Walking, mentioning a new trend of

staying at home is the new going out - walk your flat

This ain´t no new trend. As Alain de Botton has noted in his book The art of travel, a book I can recommend to every traveller, in 1790 a 27 year old French men called Xavier de Maistre did a journey around his room - in his pyjamas - and wrote down his experience in a book called Journey around my room (which is being re-released now thanks to the work of Alain de Botton). 8 years later, he repeated that journey, moving further around the room and finally reaching - the window!

Whether travelling from his bed to his sofa, or even to his mirror, he wears his "travelling outfit", consisting of his favourite pink and blue pyjamas. Out of his forced reclusion comes a delightful fantasy, and de Maistre´s new take on the travel literature of the past went on to inspire many future writers, such as Marcel Proust. (quote from Amazon Synopsis)