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As a lover of PI.FYI/getting/giving unsolicited recommendations for all things, I recently started sending my google maps pins to people I see traveling to places I've marked a few things. What's better than getting a recco from somebody real and not some dumb watered down sponsored Time Out article about 'Top 5 most instagrammable places in Seoul' etc etc etc. Ew. Here's a list I made while working in London for a month. There is what I like to think a good range from obvious trendy wine bars down to things I stumbled past while ambling around. Plus I think that giving good travel recs gives good travel karma!
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Whenever I discover a new place to visit, I immediately add it to a list.
It feels like I'm collecting an inventory of places and it helps reduce stagnation in my life.
Bonus: it's a great tool for making plans with indecisive friends and perfect to share with tourists!
Jan 9, 2025
Your own personal digital travel journal of sorts, you let google maps do all the work for you. i love it for detailed shots of gates and stained glass work, but also great for those beautiful cemeteries or skyline views that you didn’t have enough time to take a picture of. Just have to remember the street intersections!
Jan 31, 2024
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i don’t use apple maps so i’m not sure if it has this feature, but i love using it! whether it’s a rec from someone on here/instagram or from one of my friends, i’ll add it to my maps, no matter the city, cuz who knows where i’ll go and when i’ll go there? :o
Sep 16, 2024
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it's really easy to be lazy and let something like a parsley leaf fall on the kitchen floor when I'm cooking and just ignore it. same goes for a tiny piece of foil if i'm opening some annoying package. but if you just take that spare millisecond to fucking crouch down and pick the damn thing up, you are just that much better for it. don't have to deal with it later, don't have to annoy your housemates or partner, and you're just being proactive about something even if very tiny. the cumulative effect has a really positive outcome and it gets easier as you go.
Sep 24, 2024
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Inner Totality is one of the best DJs, so pro at cross genre spanning mixes that suit meditation and chilling to home dinners up to dancefloor boppin, but this country mix is so fresh. Dude has selector skills in all genres its wild. His new band ddwy is also really cool and fun
Sep 30, 2024
I really like reading the New Yorker and have done so for about a decade. I no longer live in New York but I still read the Tables For Two section excitedly first thing every week and try to get through the majority of the articles. However, there are sooooo many more in the backlogs and the iPhone app is actually quite optimized with previous published pieces so I like to sift through the internet to see what people recommend from the past, and also use their Sunday Archive emails to delve into old writings. It's cool to see people like J.D. Salinger or Truman Capote writing articles for them back in the day. One I recently loved was the original publishing of the Brokeback Mountain short story in the fiction section. As a Wyoming native I found the descriptions of the landscape and energy to be so richly written.
Sep 24, 2024