
The Old Jewish Quarter, Kraków It’s early Sunday morning as I peer down into Plac Wolnica. Overhead grey skies are cracking apart and promising a fine day. A school group huddles in one corner taking pictures of the exterior of the Ethnographic Museum with their phones. Middle-aged couples wearing precautionary rain jackets and backpacks…

Many industries are romanticised by those on the outside looking in and the travel industry is an exemplar of this. It’s a wildly competitive industry where the grit more than outweighs the glamour. Don’t mistake me, it’s an industry I love deeply, but I suspect my friends’ perception of my former role within it…