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An ode to carpark tourism

Now you’ve seen it, why pay to go up it? Pisa, Italy; September 2020.

I’m not sure if my family invented the concept or not, but I was raised on the idea of what we used to call ‘carpark tourism’. 

In essence, rather than spending oodles of time, money, and patience on dragging recalcitrant teenagers around the chateaux of the Loire (for example), we’d vi…