The Travel Wire: Wallis and Futuna

[The Travel Wire #56] Rwanda, not a travel story, the “cool Camino”, Copacabana Beach, and more travel reads.

Travel reads

• Postmarked: Wallis and Futuna [Shellphone Chronicles]
“Meet the tiny works of art that inspire travel dreams around the world.”

• This is not a travel story [Trying!]
“I built my career on artful narratives of adventure. But was I lying to my readers — and to myself?”

• The ‘cool Camino’: Why hikers are heading north [BBC Travel]
“Every summer, Spain’s iconic Camino bakes under extreme heat, but Norway’s St Olav Ways offer pilgrims a quieter, cooler path to redemption.”

• Rwanda – the country that breaks the stereotypes you hold about Africa [Ilona Vinogradova]

• Exploring diverse lives at legendary Copacabana Beach [Wander, Wonder, Write]

• Into the wild: a surfer girl’s guide to hidden wave hunting in Asia [Eastside Asia]

• Wildflower days and wine-flowing nights in Slovenia (archive) [NY Times Travel]
“Home cooking, natural wine, majestic vistas and rustic guesthouses: A road trip through this small Central European country yielded a rich array of surprises for a first-time visitor.”

• Why do we consider travelling as “living” when it’s the opposite? [Kayla Doris Is Away]

• I swam from Asia to Europe. A surge of hope kept me going [CNN Travel]

• S is Singapore. A few notes on a two hours’ flight. [Hungry for travel by Igor]