Since druidic times, physicians have recommended a change of location as a panacea.
The nature-writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) said, ‘If men should acquire the art of flying, there can be no doubt that migration would become the custom, and whole nations would change their localities.’
I suspect Jefferies was envisaging wing suits or jet packs. For there is nothing artistic about the series of endurance tests that await the modern frequent, or even infrequent, flier who signs up for a misleadingly named ‘city break’. Even the rail
