The most inescapable travel trend of 2025 — online at least — must be airport theory. With winter city-break season in full swing and the intimidatingly enormous Grand Egyptian Museum, with its 100,000 artefacts, topping many bucket lists, let me take this opportunity to propose a new concept — “museum theory”. This is the practice of making your gallery visit as easy and efficient (and, unlike airport theory, stress-free) as possible. The first tenet of museum theory is that you should never visit more than one per day. It helps reduce stress on holiday rather than compound it, and there’s another advantage museum theory has on its airport equivalent.

Source: The Times November 29, 2025 17:02 UTC