City guides

Hand-written city guides: how to get there, what it is actually like, and the places you will remember.

• Banff, Canada — A town of 8,000 outnumbered by everything around it
• Barcelona, Spain — The City That Built A Cathedral From Drips
• Las Vegas, Nevada, US — A desert that learned to outsine the sun
• Los Angeles, California, US — A city that only makes sense at 20 miles an hour
• New York — The City That Speaks 200 Languages On Two Subway Lines
• Paris, France — The City That Closes for Lunch And Means It
• Rome, Italy — The City That Turned Ruins Into Terraces And Never Finished
• Tokyo, Japan — The City That Runs On Train Time Down To The Second
• Toronto — The City That Speaks 140 Languages On Two Subway Lines
• Yosemite National Park, US — The Park that invented the idea of a National Park
• Zermatt, Switzerland — The Town That Banned Cars Before It Was Cool