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…
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 consistent finding is that the initial problem is rarely what ruins a trip. What ruins it is the two hours spent trying to reinstate the original plan when it…
The reason night arrivals go wrong is not the darkness. It is that the desk is closed, the shop is shut, the information point is unstaffed and the transport is…
The useful questions are all about you rather than about anywhere in particular, which is why they work regardless of where you end up going. Here are fifteen.
1. What…