For the longest time, the guidebook was a travellers bible, a dog-eared devoured book full of encircled highlights. The entire trip’s success was dependent on it. This changed with the coming of the worldwide web, which made all the information you needed just a few clicks away, ready to be printed out. Even more information about geographic location, tourist destination and itinerary was now available for us.

 

 

The problem is that because of this information overload we have a collective expectation to be amazed by certain places. These illusions of a picture perfect place are enforced by marketing material, brochures and stories we hear or read. The more impulses of a destination we get, the more we assume our journey’s landscape will be as good as we imagine. But what happens if the view can’t live up to your expectations?