The value of translation became apparent to me several years ago while my wife and I were traveling through Europe. Having spent several days in Oxford, our original travel plans had us going on to London, where we would board a high-speed Chunnel train that would take us under the English Channel to Paris in a few short hours. However, the day before our train was scheduled to depart, a fire in the Chunnel shut down that route. Our three-hour train ride was replaced by a 24-hour assortment of disjointed train, ferry, and taxi rides, interspersed with dragging our heavy roller-board luggage across several miles of cobblestone walkways.
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