Weekly travel reads: Turkey’s best budget train ride

[The Travel Wire #80] What 1990s travel can teach us about the coming airfare crisis, a return to Nagasaki, Bali is not “ruined”, and more travel reads.

Travel reads

• Turkey’s best budget train ride is an 800 mile journey east [Independent]
“In search of an affordable way to cross the country, Richard Collett boarded the Dogu Ekspresi, travelling past snow-capped mountains and plunging gorges.”

• Waiting in Madrid: what 1990s travel can teach us about the coming airfare crisis [Brigid Delaney]
“From $9-an-hour pub jobs to $240 fuel surcharges, we are exiting the golden age of frictionless travel. As the conflict in the Gulf reconfigures the map, I’m looking back at 1998 to see our future.”

• A return to Nagasaki [Craig Mod]
“Why Nagasaki should be on the top of places for you to visit when you come to Japan.”

• Cork [The Unplugged Traveler]
“In which good craic obscures the pain of unfulfilled Gothic longings.”

• It’s possible [Scott Monaco]
“An attempt to circle a Danish island.”

• What women find when they wander [Books on Trains]

• A few days in El Tunco [The Way]
“Central America’s newest hotspot.”

• Bali is not “ruined”. It’s not the same as it was a decade ago, and nor should it be. [Lilarwrites]
“Notes from three years in, inspired by Nyepi.”

• Holy parades and earthly pleasures in Spain: Easter in Granada [The Guardian]
“The ancient city – with its gardens, hammams and Moorish architecture – comes alive in spring and its Holy Week processions are among the most authentic in Andalucía.”

• Consider Cuernavaca for eternal spring living [Escape Artist]
“An affordable, sunlit city just beyond Mexico City where culture, history, and everyday ease quietly converge.”

• Chasing cherry blossoms in Seoul, off the Tokyo track [Eastside Asia]