Now that you’ve arrived in a new city what should be your next move? As you’re new in town and know noone, most likely you don’t have any ideas. Don’t worry, many travellers share this common problem.
So how can you find out what you should do in the magnicificent place you’ve arrived at? If you’re staying at a hotel, you could wander down to the lobby and find the concierge. Some of them can definitely point you in the direction of where the other tourists are. Just follow that herd over there! Otherwise, there are a couple of approaches that they like to take; they either ask a neverending series of questions about your likes and dislikes, your ideal holiday, the size of your bank account.. you get the idea. Yes, that could be seen as a valid approach but by the time the interrogration is over, you probably would have forgotten what you had originally asked them.
The other approach that the concierge may take is to throw (not literally) their neverending supply of leaflets at you. These have been given to them by the hundreds of company’s that want to take money off you to show you how to be a tourist there. There are bus tours, walking tours, helicopter tours, ghost tours.. whatever you might think you need. That’s fine but once you’re back home, you may still find that you have no idea what it would be like to live there.