A rushed visit can collect photographs faster than it collects understanding.

Speed favors whatever can be captured instantly. A photograph takes a second, while understanding a place needs dull unproductive time, sitting somewhere, being slightly bored, watching how people actually behave when nothing is happening. Rush through and you come home with proof that you were there and very little sense of what it was.

Cut one stop from your next itinerary and give the time to somewhere ordinary. Sit long enough to stop looking for the next thing. You will remember an hour in an unremarkable cafe longer than the sight you queued for.