Imagine a meticulously planned holiday: pristine beaches, ancient ruins, or the pulsating rhythm of a metropolis, each promising an escape from the mundane. The flight ticket becomes a quiet permission slip to behave differently: to loosen, to drift, to experiment with versions of ourselves that would feel untenable at ‘home’. “The people we become in cities that aren’t ours” are often less tightly bound to consequence, reputation, and the long memory of neighbours. This ment