Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Have you been on a trip? How long was the journey? Did you enjoy the sea voyage? Most of the above mentioned English words can simply be translated as putovanje in Croatian, but what kind of putovanje are we talking about? To clear any misunderstanding, if you are going on a trip you will be travelling for a short period of time, whereas a journey implies a longer period and/or distance. We often use phrases such as a day trip as opposed to a long journey or even a journey of life. As children, many of us loved books by Jules Verne, often featuring a lengthy adventurous journey, such as described in The Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
And what about travel(s) and travelling? These terms are used more generally, usually when describing moving from one place to another, e.g. His travels abroad provided a lot of interesting material for the book he is writing or I don’t do as much travelling as I did before. Furthermore, we use the word travel in collocations such as travel documents, travel tickets, travel agency, travel agents, travel arrangements, travel sickness, air travel etc.
