Travelling with parents
Slower days, earlier dinners, more sitting down. We saw about a third as much and remember roughly twice as clearly.
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The first solo trip
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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Off-season logic
Half the price, a third of the people, and the weather does what it likes. Two out of three is a very good trade.
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Shoulder season sunsets
Late September on a Mediterranean island: warm sea, empty beaches and every restaurant owner has time to talk. Nobody tells you this because they want to keep it.
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The hardest goodbye
A host who fed us for a week refused payment and asked only that we send a photograph when we got home. We did, and she printed it.
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Learning to be late
In some places, arriving on time is what is rude. It took a fortnight to unlearn a lifetime of arriving nine minutes early.
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A map on a napkin
Better than any app. Four streets, one landmark, an arrow and a name to say at the door. It worked perfectly and we kept the napkin.
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Why we keep going
Not for the photographs and not for the list. For the twenty minutes on a bench in a place you cannot pronounce, when nobody in the world knows exactly where you are.
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