This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. Concerned individuals on Twitter, Reddit, and Quora regularly ask if separating friends is OK—one Reddit user confesses that they know that it’s “silly and juvenile” but fear that if their friends meet, “one of them might replace me with the other.” On Quora, another person seems to take pride in his social …
Last fall I met a guy. Had I unconsciously accepted the old adage from “When Harry Met Sally” that men and women can’t be friends because “the sex part always gets in the way”? “You don’t know what the great benefits are going to be of the friendship — maybe you guys have chemistry and can be best friends, but …
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There’s a section of the Danube in Austria that seduces all comers. Dotted with small winemaker’s taverns, the region, with its curious water-powered ferries and its fruitful orchards whose 100,000 apricot trees blossom every spring, starts at Melk in the west and finishes at Krems in the east. Rent a bicycle from Wachau Explorer’s cycle shop on Krems’ pedestrianised main …
