The mistake is treating an open trip as one where nothing is decided. What actually makes it work is deciding a few structural things very firmly, which is what buys…
One day does not permit a shortened version of a proper visit. It permits one thing done properly and a great deal of walking between, and accepting that at the…
Arriving by train differs from every other mode in one respect: you are deposited in a city centre, on foot, with your luggage, in a building that contains most of…
The test is simple and nobody applies it at the time: which of these will still mean something when the trip is a decade old. It is rarely the famous…
The pattern is consistent: people assume their own default is the obvious one, discover on the second day that it is not, and treat a difference in preference as a…
The difference between covering ground and seeing a place is mostly about route choice. Everything below is a way of arranging a walk so that the parts between the destinations…