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…
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 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…
Off-season travel is usually discussed as a way of paying less, which undersells it substantially. The season changes what the destination actually is, and mostly in ways that favour the…
The single structural problem is that visitors and residents eat in different places, at different times, from different menus - and everything below is a way of moving from the…
The last day has a particular property: you now know the place, which you did not on any previous day, and you will not be back tomorrow. That combination is…