The Travel Wire

[The Travel Wire #98] I visited every Colombo restaurant in a 25-year-old guidebook, the charm of unremarkable places, pointless competition with other travelers, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The lonely road to Europe’s Arctic edge (archive) [BBC Travel] “Most visitors come to Norway for its dramatic western fjords. But the country’s most extraordinary drive […]

[The Travel Wire #97] Beyond the end of the Orient Express, Dubrovnik journey that ditches the crowds, gatekeepers are hiding their favorite places, and more travel reads. Travel reads • For three hours every day, open ocean transforms into Australia’s ‘ghost’ reef [Smithsonian Magazine] “An isolated wonder some 1,200 miles from the nearest city, Montgomery Reef […]

[The Travel Wire #96] Homer the travel writer, Lisbon, how a quiet Chinese fishing village became a global surfing hotspot, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Mauritania: A rare glimpse at one of the world’s least-visited nations (archive) [BBC Travel] “Located almost entirely in the Sahara, Mauritania is home to centuries-old cities, desert oases and […]

[The Travel Wire #95] Travel as a suspension of identity, Canada’s ‘breathtaking, must-see hike’, Bishkek to Kochkor, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Hiking through time in Northeast Taiwan [DestinAsian] “Traversing the mountains of Taiwan’s Yilan County, a network of forest trails reveals as much about the region’s natural beauty as about its layered cultural […]

[The Travel Wire #94] Notes on Lopburi, on trusting strangers in Egypt, the reality of living on a permanent cruise, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Soviet markets, sunshine and beer steins: This beautiful former USSR city is opening up to tourists [Independent] “Nearby Tbilisi is still enjoying its moment and now – thanks to […]