Read the Meridian Dispatch guide to one country or one town, for planning a stay there. Returns: why go, how long to stay, the best months, getting there and around, practical FAQ answers, a structured fact sheet where one exists (nights, months, travel times in minutes, areas to stay, ranked top things, day trips, watch-outs), up to 15 ranked places worth your time with their own guide links, recommended hotels, the town guides of a country, related dispatches and a citation. Use it for "what to do in X", "how many days in X" or "where to stay in X". For a single sight, trail, event or ski resort use get_place; for a long-form dispatch use get_dispatch; to find a destination by theme use search_guides; for towns within reach use list_nearby. Two sizes: detail "summary" (the default) returns a short overview, nights, months, airports, areas to stay and the top 8 places, each with an id to pass to get_place as url; detail "full" returns everything above. Ask for "full" only when the summary lacks what the traveller needs. Matching tries a country first, then a town. A country with town guides but no country guide returns its town guides and dispatches instead. Read-only. An unknown name returns an error message.