Sometimes old advice is the best advice. Here are what were considered to be the Top 10 qualities needed by a traveler by the travel writer Freya Stark. Something good to aspire to in 2010. 

1.     A temper as serene at the end of the day as at the beginning

2.     The capacity to accept other people’s standards

3.     Rapid judgment of character

4.     A love of nature including human nature

5.     The capacity to disassociate oneself from bodily sensations

6.     A knowledge of local history and language

7.     A leisurely and uncensorious mind

8.     A tolerable constitution

9.     The ability to eat and sleep at any moment

10.  A ready quickness in repartee