Plan a day from real places, not a list of top 10

A list of top ten sights tells you what is famous. It does not tell you whether you can see three of them in one afternoon. A day plan goes wrong in two ways: the stops are far apart, or one of them is closed on the day you go. Both are easy to see in advance if you plan from a map.

Start with the map, not the list

In Daywend you pick an area and see real places on the map. They come from OpenStreetMap, the open map of the world that people keep up to date, and many of them have a photo from Wikimedia Commons. Zoom in and look at how the places cluster. Places that sit within walking distance of each other make an easy day. A single place on the far side of town may be better kept for another day.

Choose fewer places than you think

Pick the ones you really want and let Daywend build the plan day by day. Every place you add costs time to get there, so a short list that fits the day beats a long one that does not.

Check the opening hours

Daywend shows the opening hours of a place where it knows them. Where it does not, it says so and does not guess. That difference matters: treat a place with no hours as "check before you go", and ring or look at the place's own page.

If a place is closed on the day of your trip, move it to another day or swap it for a neighbour.

See the way between the stops

A good plan shows how you get from one stop to the next. Daywend shows the way between stops, on foot or by public transport, and public transport rides name their vehicle. A ten-minute walk is nothing. A forty-minute ride between two stops is half a morning, and you want to know that before you commit.

The test before you go

Read the day from top to bottom as if you were living it: where you start, how you move, what is open, where the day ends. If a row makes you frown, change it now. That is the whole point of planning from real places.