Fernweh
FERN-vay
n.Aching for distant places you have never seen — the opposite of homesickness.
GermanEstablished linguistic term
The Man Who Never Went
Gerald has never left England and has an opinion about the coast road out of Bergen.
He will tell you it is best in the last week of May, before the coaches, and that the light at about nine in the evening does something to the water that people always get wrong in photographs. He is right about all of it. He has read forty years of accounts.
He is sixty-eight. He has a passport. It has never had a stamp in it.
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