Weekly travel reads: A car-free island in Vietnam

[The Travel Wire #103] Vienna’s Globe Museum, West Sumatra, how to find good food on a road trip, and more travel reads.

Travel reads

• Notes on Hon Son – A car-free island in Vietnam [Nomadic Notes]
“Hon Son is an island about 65km west of Rach Gia in An Giang Province in Vietnam. The island has an area of 11.5 square km, and there are no private cars on the island.”

• The museum charting how humans understand the world (archive) [BBC Travel]
“Beautiful, surreal and eerily empty, Vienna’s Globe Museum the only public museum on Earth dedicated to globes, and it – quite literally – tells the story of our world.”

• West Sumatra, where you find buffalo supermodels and a village called ‘Singapore’ [The Straits Times]

• App life in China [ChinaFile]
“Notes on a long-delayed return to China.”

• How to find good food on a road trip [Shut Up ‘n Eat]
“Hone your Spidey sense without relying on Google Maps.”

• Buenos Aires beckons: tango, parrilla and the enduring memory of Eva Perón [Mexico Soul]
“A Buenos Aires journey, legendary Eva Perón, and the Argentines who never forgot her.”

• Having no travel plan (but knowing your travel options) is a decent travel plan [Rolf Potts]
“What “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” can teach us about embracing life in the road.”

• No museums, no castles, no beaches. Epic Europe, part 1 [Nomadic Mind]
“Three months, eighteen countries, and all the people who ruined my plans.”

• Italy’s real town square has a blinking green cross [GlobeFoxing]
“Inside the farmacia, where a nation of God-fearing hypochondriacs goes to be seen.”

• There’s only one palatable way to travel with friends [Slate]
“It involves not seeing them.”

• The road to Mandalay [Backstories]