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The consulate staff had clearly done this a thousand times. She asked three questions, made two calls, and told me it would be four days and to go and enjoy the city.
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Three days without luggage taught me that I had packed twice as much as I needed and that laundries exist in every country on Earth.
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We missed by eleven minutes and were rebooked for the next morning. The forced overnight became the best city we visited that year, and we had never planned to go.
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Four strangers at an airport at one in the morning splitting a fare into town. Two of them are still in a group chat with me eight years later.
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A ball, a wall and six children. Nobody needed to explain the rules and nobody kept score properly.
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Hello, please, thank you, sorry, yes, no, how much, where is, delicious and goodbye. Ten words changed every single interaction of the trip.
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Three days without a signal in a mountain hut. By the second evening, everyone had stopped checking their pockets and started playing cards.
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The first time is awkward. By the fourth you bring a notebook, sit at the bar, and end up talking to the chef.
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Go where the traders eat, at the hour they eat, and order what is already on the counter. It has never once failed.
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We found one in a hostel with four years of notes in three handwritings. We added ours and left it on the shelf for the next person.
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Write one to your own address from each country. They arrive weeks later, out of order, when you have almost forgotten the day you wrote them.
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Twenty-four exposures for a two-week trip forces you to look before you press. Half of them were terrible and four of them are framed.
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Pick a direction, walk for ninety minutes, then turn around. You will find more than any list of top ten sights.
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Sit on the same bench for an hour. A neighbourhood reveals its schedule: school, deliveries, lunch, dogs, old men, then children again.
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Every good trip has a place where you stayed one night too few. The fix is a rule: if you say maybe on the first evening, book the extra night.
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We met on a bus and travelled together for nine days. Neither of us suggested it and neither of us mentioned when it would end.
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Do not plan the last day. Go back to the one place you liked most and do exactly the same thing again.
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The strangest part is the supermarket. Forty kinds of bread and nobody making eye contact, and you standing there wondering why it feels rude.
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Not the carving or the magnet. A bus ticket with a date on it, found in a coat pocket in February, worth more than everything on the shelf.
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We asked for the recipe and were given a list of ingredients with no quantities. It took eleven attempts and it still is not right, which is the correct outcome.
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The best moment of the trip has no picture. Everyone was holding something, or eating, or laughing, and by the time anyone thought of a camera it was over.
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The cafe was a phone shop and the owner had moved to another city. The view from the bridge was exactly the same and that was somehow enough.
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Slower days, earlier dinners, more sitting down. We saw about a third as much and remember roughly twice as clearly.
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Three days of feeling conspicuous, then a switch flips and you realise nobody is looking, and you can do absolutely anything you like.
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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