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title: "Travel"
description: "Places I would go back to, and the specific reason each one is worth the trip — mostly a matter of timing."
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updated: 2026-08-26
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# Travel

Places I would go back to, and the specific reason each one is worth the trip — mostly a matter of timing.

I travel by staying somewhere longer, not by fitting seven cities into ten days.

The list is ordered by how much I want to return. Each note is the concrete detail a guidebook leaves out — usually about when to go.

- Kyoto · 2018 — Go off-season. Tofuku-ji in late November is shoulder-to-shoulder, but Nanzen-ji at half past six in the morning is nearly empty.
- Lisbon · 2019 — The only city where I think the hills make it better. Every climb pays out in a viewpoint a few hundred metres later.
- Iceland Ring Road · 2022 — Ten days, clockwise. The real payoff is the Eastfjords, which almost no tour bus reaches.
- Tainan · 2017 — Went for the food, stayed for the scale of the old city. Twenty minutes on a bike crosses four hundred years.
- Scottish Highlands · 2023 — The weather changes three times an hour. That is the feature, not the bug. Bring waterproof everything.
- Dali · 2021 — Stayed three weeks instead of three days. That is the only reason I understood what is good about it.