AI Travel Agent

02 Apr, 2026

Home, 08:39

Watching: A Good Girl's Guide To Murder - apropos of not being able to find anything else until the next episode of 'DTF St. Louis' airs, we find this. Looks alright, a lot of pushing the plot along and large leaps of deduction, and also getting a lot of 'Famous Five' vibes off it - all very posh and idealistic English village vibes. We thought the main character, Pip, played by Emma Myers, was about 12 until she started driving a car.

And she's American.

So much for the 100 day blogging challenge, I actually missed a day yesterday! For some reason it was really busy, and between work, tennis, a late dinner, and a long call with my mother about saddling her with debt so as to reduce the inheritance tax my brother and I will have to pay - how we laughed - I just ran out of time.

packing

I've been busy planning my trip to London tomorrow, with the help of AI. Between the four that I use most often - Claude. ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini, Grok was the one that came up with the best itinerary. Here's the prompt I gave it (the original one, there were a few changes along the way but I won't bore you with those):

Hi, time to revisit this, sorry. I just can't decide. as you know, i am going to London, arriving on Friday 3rd April at London City Airport at 1340, staying near the Bayswater Road. I am leaving from London City Airport on the 6th of April. My main vibe is just being in London, enjoying the city and the atmosphere. I've seen most of the touristy sites, but would like to visit Notting Hill, also Hampstead, Soho, the south bank, the V&A, the City and perhaps a few museums/galleries to do with photography. Which of the markets do you suggest, Camden, Spitalfields or Borough Market? I will use the Tube whenever I can. I would like a rough plan for those days, not filled days, enough to give me little breaks as well. Can you suggest something for a 55 year-old male solo traveller? Please ask me any questions you need to fine tune.

It came up with a really nice plan for the three days I'm there, not too much, just enough space in between to just sit on a bench and read a book, or watch the world go by. It actually recommended Borough Market but I'm going to Spitalfields instead. I'm also going to visit the Photographers Gallery in Soho, and while I'm there, a quick visit to Freemason's Hall, and Covent Garden. On the Saturday also going to Notting Hill and the Portebello Market. Tomorrow starts off with the photography collection at the V&A.

It even gave me loads of tips on what lenses to bring on the camera, even suggested some presets and places to go for some unique London views. It'll be just me and the other million photographers using AI to make up for their lack of imagination.

I am looking forward to the trip, my first time in London on my own. It should be good and the weather looks like it's going to be grand. That is to say, dry, and no warmer than 16c. Proper travelling temps, that is.

There's nothing else to say really. Today should be quiet, tomorrow too hopefully. Actually, it had better be as there is no one working tomorrow so if Production goes down I'm fucked because between me and the intern, we know nothing.

Also, I'll be in Departures 3 at Schiphol.

Fingers crossed.