Travel

The trips are still worth taking. What changes after fifty is what you are willing to put up with: the six a.m. connection, the hotel with no lift, the tour that walks eleven miles before lunch.

This section is about choosing well. The cruise that suits a first-timer and the one that doesn't. The train route that beats flying. The questions to ask a hotel before you book, and the trips that are harder than they look. Every list names the thing to check, the words to say at the desk and the moment to say them.

We write for someone travelling on her own terms, often on her own, with money she earned and no wish to be told she is brave for spending it.