When we were young and naïve and thought that entering “Holidays in France” into a search engine would actually yield some usefeul results (around 2004 that would be) then that was whet we did.

But then search engine optimisation came along and “Holidays in France” would bring up anything but and quite a lot of pornography to boot, so we (or, at least, I) got a little more savvy about how we searched.

Nowadays, if I were serious about a holiday in a part of the world that I had not visited before I would first go to our local library and find a guide, make a few notes and then do far more specific searches based on what I had found.

Google is important, no doubt, but their importance can be exagerated. There remains more than one way to skin a cat.