A pier is an odd piece of architecture: a road to nowhere, built at considerable expense, whose purpose is the walking rather than the arriving. Here are fifteen worth doing.…
The first day is worth treating as orientation rather than sightseeing. Everything below makes the remaining days easier, and most of it costs nothing.
1. Walk a Loop Around Where…
These are working buildings rather than museums, which means the way in is usually a tour or the cheapest seat available. Here are fifteen worth getting inside.
1. Palais Garnier,…
The useful way to think about vision is not as a recording but as a reconstruction — a best guess assembled from partial data. Here are twelve of the shortcuts…
Goosebumps are among the strangest things the human body does routinely. A sensation arrives — cold air, a piece of music, someone's fingertips on the back of your neck —…
Autumn colour is usually described as leaves changing colour, which frames it as something the leaf does. That is only half right, and the half that is wrong is the…