[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 […]

[The Travel Wire #79] How Lonely Planet stopped serving the very people it was created for, Tehran, the Surin Islands, Tobacco Caye, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Totally Med: exploring Menton, where the French and Italian rivieras meet [The Guardian] “Feted for its warm winters and famous lemons, the seaside border town has attracted […]

[The Travel Wire #79] Iran, the overlooked Canary Island, Sri Lanka’s little-known north, and more travel reads. Travel reads • I took a solo railway trip across the largest landlocked country in the world [Adventure] “Boarding a cavernous platzkart to cross the Central Asian steppe the slow way, writer Kate Bettes embarks on a 26-hour rail […]

[The Travel Wire #78] The best way to understand India is to travel by train, ‘Serengeti of South America’, travel without an audience, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Cheese, beer and divine intervention in Bumthang, Bhutan’s spiritual heartland [Eastside Asia] “As a Bhutanese, I often get asked by curious travellers: “Where is your favourite […]

[The Travel Wire #77] Passport privilege, when intuition becomes your guide, Nigeria, Guatemala thirty years after my first visit, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Short of breath, but finding peace, at 18,000 feet (archive) [NY Times Travel] “A writer grapples with the death of her sister, and the end of a marriage, during a […]

[The Travel Wire #76] Mumbai, the fantastic Faroes, Tunisia, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The last yak herder of Ladakh [Noema] “As glaciers melt and traditions fade, one man’s journey across Ladakh’s sacred pastures is a living archive of a disappearing way of life.” • My City: Mumbai – an homage to the Indian metropolis […]

[The Travel Wire #75] Pedal from the end of the Lofoten Islands to Vardø, my beach paradise is somewhere most tourists ignore, visiting my accountant in Pakistan, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Surf shacks and ocean breezes: welcome to Riviera Nayarit (archive) [NY Times Travel] “A budget-friendly stretch of coastal towns in Mexico offers […]

[The Travel Wire #74] Underground Paris, slow train to Turin, an ode to hostels, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Can the “Galápagos of the Arabian Sea” survive its popularity? [Afar] “The UNESCO-listed island of Socotra faces an onslaught of sustainability challenges, from climate change to an Instagram-fueled tourism surge.” • Underground Paris is the city […]

[The Travel Wire #73] Nagasaki, a mystery tour in the Faroe Islands, Maldives beyond the resorts, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Protecting one of Europe’s last wild rivers: a volunteering trip to the Vjosa in Albania [The Guardian] “Now a ‘wild river national park’, the Vjosa needs more trees to be planted to preserve […]

[The Travel Wire #72] The slow extinction of budget travel, riding the Bamboo Curtain, North Korea by night, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The Italian paradise island with no roads, no phone signal — and almost no tourists [CNN Travel] “Palmarola has no town and no roads. There is no electricity, no mobile phone […]