Travel

Q: Where was your last trip? A: A few months ago, actually — a short trip up north to see some family and get out of the city for a bit. Nothing especially exotic, but it did what I needed it to, which was mostly just resetting a bit after a stretch of pretty relentless work. I came back more tired than when I left, in the good way. Q: Do you prefer short or long trips? A: Short trips, if I'm honest, though that's probably more about my current schedule than a genuine preference. A long trip requires a kind of mental unhooking from work that I find harder to manage than I used to, whereas a long weekend somewhere is easy to justify and easy to recover from. I'd like to say I prefer longer ones, but the evidence says otherwise. Q: Where would you go next? A: I've had my eye on a trip somewhere colder, maybe northern Europe, mostly because I've never really travelled anywhere that wasn't warm. It's a slightly random reason to pick a destination, but I like the idea of experiencing a completely different rhythm to a place. Nothing's booked yet — it's still in the vague-plan stage.