Going Places
What to check before you buy a suitcase you want to keep for a decade
Luggage fails in four predictable places, and almost none of the marketing talks about them. Here is what to look at, and what to ignore.
Still recognizable a year on? Four things stall a compost heap
Forged or pressed, socket or tang: what to check on a spade before paying
When the train genuinely wins, and when people take it anyway
How to choose the week rather than agonizing over the place
Two people can go to the same place, stay in the same room, walk the same streets, and come home with entirely different opinions about it. Often the only variable was…
Read the articleWhy your car never quite matches its official fuel figure
Every driver notices it eventually. The brochure said one thing, the trip computer says another, and the receipts say something else again. The gap is real, it is normal, and it…
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