A tour will spare you much harassment, but is expensive, and subject to the whim of a guide; the one we had rushed us through the riveting 16th-century Agra Fort, then forced us to linger endlessly at a souvenir shop.
I chose to study astrophysics at university on something of a whim, my decision being guided principally by the alphabetical arrangement of the UCCA handbook, rather than the fine structure or content of the course itself.
Let intuition be your guide and follow your whim when exploring this simple and undisciplined 48-acre garden loved by joggers.
Visitors are usually given an hourlong guided tour after which they are free to wander at whim.
So they guide us, either invisibly or through directly aggressive intimidation, by the whims of an unseen figure who is so clearly meant to be God that they may as well have hired Morgan Freeman to follow everyone around and chuckle at everything he does in a vaguely avuncular way.
There's a big difference between rafting in white water with a helmet and an experienced guide and jumping on an inner tube to soar over a waterfall on a whim.
But when you're not guided by public opinion or a consistent ideology, the alternative is liable to be personal whim, which can get dangerous the longer you're in power.
Just because you, a heterosexual male, failed to appreciate the joys of an oversized corsage doesn't mean that the women who wore them looked like – forgive me, Guardian style guide editor, I am sure this term is unacceptable but I am merely at the whims of my correspondent – "lunatics".
It's a subjective undertaking, guided partly by whims, current preoccupations and you-have-to-include-this mandates from friends.
In Saudi Arabia and other despotic regimes, where people are divided into rulers and subjects, the judicial system is guided by the whims of the ruling family and the accused prince would have been given a free pass.
