@brittarnhild
For 20 years I used to work downtown. Every single workday I took the bus down, and I often used to go again on Saturday or Sunday mornings, for a hike, for photographing, for sitting down in a café writing.
I have been retired for almost four years now, and there are sometimes weeks between I go downtown. I do miss it, but somehow the days are always so filled with other plans and tasks.
But then there are days when we have errands to do. We could of course go to one of the many shopping centres around the city, but we prefer "the real stuff", to walk the old streets of the city center, take a coffee somewhere, lunch in another place, do our errands, and also go for an extra walk, just to enjoy the town.
