The trip is over and what it produced is still recoverable for about a week, after which most of it is not. Everything below is worth more done immediately than…
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…