Bhutan, the coffee hub of Vietnam, how Bali has changed for better and worse, cats of Istanbul, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The sights and sounds of Bhutan [Wait But Why] • Notes on Buon Ma Thuot – The coffee hub in the heart of the Central Highlands [Nomadic Notes] • I’ve been traveling to Bali for 40 […]
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #63
Backpacking Greenland, Bangkok during a coup in 1992, the Dolomite Mountains, Somalia, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Greenland is notoriously expensive. I tried to visit on a shoestring [Independent] “Most people visit the country on an expensive cruise or guided tour – Anna Richards attempted to backpack it.” • Sukhumvit under siege: A bar, a coup, […]
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #62
When places change, Leiden, Levuka (Fiji’s original capital), exoplanet tourism, and more travel reads. Travel reads • When places change [A Sense of Wander] “I just spent a week in New Delhi, India. It is an annual ritual, a pilgrimage of sorts, this return to my soulplace. I find it restorative—and unsettling. The Delhi I fell in […]
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #61
The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route, the forgotten republic of Transnistria, rediscovering the ancient wonders of eastern Turkey, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Every tree can be a Buddha [Kottke] “The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route is an amazing 12-mile trail that winds its way up through the forest from the Jison-in temple in the town of Kudoyama in […]
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #60
Peak District, Zhengzhou, Italy’s sleeper from Milan to Sicily, the Michinoku Coastal Trail, and more travel reads. • From Steel City to Cottonopolis: a new walking trail through a post-industrial Peak District [The Guardian] • Walking Zhengzhou (China) [Chris Arnade Walks the World] “A rust belt city, without the rust.” • The European train that […]
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #59
Cathedrals and chapels of Wallis Island, ghost month in Taipei, a train tour of Europe’s cool northern capitals, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/24-october-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #58
Vietnam’s ‘Happiness Road’, Iceland, one fine day in the high Himalayas, Jeju, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/17-october-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #57
How a century of tourism shaped the Bali we know today, Chile’s Route 7, an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo, Orkney, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/10-october-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #56
Wallis and Futuna, not a travel story, the “cool Camino”, Copacabana Beach, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/3-october-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #55
Syria’s fragile paradise, following James Joyce from Dublin to Trieste by train, visiting the world’s most dangerous places, hungry at the airport, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/26-september-2025
