About this story
He messages a stranger whose profile picture happens to have the colosseum in it, and lands with a guide, a co-conspirator and four days. Eighteen chapters of a beach stakeout, a locked castle they climb into anyway, a temple at midnight, and a goodbye at the airport that neither of them manages.
Who you’ll meet
The solo traveller who flew into a small sun-baked town for one concert by the band that made him, grinning at the reader with the two tickets he has been hiding.