‘Most people who have been to Crewe station have never been to Crewe.’ In a moment of serendipity, my train pulls into Crewe station at the exact moment I turn the page to begin the chapter ‘Changing Tracks’ in Chris Moss’s new travelogue Where Tourists Seldom Tread. In his Guardian column ‘Postcards from Britain’, Moss visits and reconsiders ‘improbable, bypassed and unloved’ destinations, such as Warrington, Gateshead, Paisley, Clacton-on-Sea – and Crewe, which my train from London has reached after no small delay. It becomes a template for his travels, in which he finds music, poetry, literature, art, architecture, and, very often, dilapidation. Inevitably, Where Tourists Seldom Tread will form a snapshot – a postcard, if you will – of Britain during the few years Moss has been visiting these places.