SOMEWHERE LOVELY FOR A WHILE: 30 Places to Go Without Going Anywhere

Somebody is always telling you to take a walk. Get some fresh air. Book a weekend away.Excellent advice. Unless it's Tuesday, it's raining, someone needs dinner, or leaving the house simply isn't on the table today.Fine. Come in anyway. We have a castle.Thirty places, written in enough physical detail that your body half believes it. A cottage while the rain comes in sideways. Somewhere hot while snow lands in your hair. A room you would never normally be able to afford. And a few that are a considerable distance beyond this planet.Then, at the good bit, the book stops.On purpose.Because the best part was never going to be somebody else's furniture. It's what you do next.Some of these you could have this week. Some would need a much more relaxed credit limit. One requires NASA.Read one before bed and don't bother finishing it. Read one aloud and stop where the book stops, then find out where they went. Argue with your friends about which of the thirty they'd choose - which turns out to be the fastest way to learn something about people.For anyone who has ever been somewhere entirely different while apparently just looking out of a window. And a very good present for someone who has everything except an afternoon.I'll start the dream. You take it from here.