Tripping answers one question: we’re here, we’re awake — what do we do today? Not next month, not “someday when we plan a real trip”. Today, in this city, with the people you’re travelling with. That question deserves a confident answer, and a confident answer is short.
A short list is a point of view
A search engine hands you forty links and lets you do the comparing. We think that’s the research project you were trying to avoid. So the first thing you see in any city is a small set of worthwhile choices, sorted into the same eight shelves everywhere — landmarks, museums, festivals, shows, sports, outdoors, tours, neighbourhoods — with the full inventory still one click away. Curation first, completeness behind it.
Choosing few things means saying no to many. Here is what earns a yes:
- It’s genuinely on today. Open, running, or scheduled — not “usually open” or “worth it in season”.
- It works for the party in front of us. A family with a stroller and a couple with an evening free do not need the same list.
- The practical path is clear. Where it is, roughly what it costs, how to get there, and an official page for the next step.
- A local would defend the pick. If we can’t say why it fits today — weather, timing, neighbourhood, mood — it doesn’t lead.
What we do when we don’t know
The uncomfortable part of running a catalogue built from public sources is that sources are incomplete. Schedules go unpublished. Prices change. A venue forgets to update its page.
Our rule is simple: we never invent the missing piece. When a schedule is only day-precise, the label says “Scheduled today · time unknown”. When a price isn’t published, we say so and point you to the official box office instead of guessing. A calm “we don’t know, check here” beats a confident number that’s wrong — you’re the one standing in front of the gate if we get it wrong.
Where the facts come from
Every activity in the catalogue traces back to a public source — city open data, official venue and festival pages, league schedules — and each card links to that source. We don’t take bookings, we don’t sell placement, and no one can pay their way onto a shelf. When the concierge recommends something, it is reading the same catalogue you can browse, plus the day’s weather; it cites what it knows and admits what it doesn’t.
That’s the whole method: a short list we can stand behind, honest gaps where the facts run out, and an official next step so you can stop reading and go. The same product in English and in French — because a good host doesn’t make half the table wait.