Notes on places to go in 2025, the borderless Capital of Culture, powerful passports, where to go by train in Europe. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/10-january-2025

On travel media’s misguided obsession with the “local” experience, navigating reverse culture shock, Laos, Sardinia, Mekong Delta in harvest season, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/3-january-2025

After the tsunami, a hike through Iceland’s Highlands, the practice of travel, best travel books of 2024, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/27-december-2024

Walking London’s Overground lines, airport typeface, Siargao (x2), big roadside things, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/20-december-2024

The Pamir Trail, country counting, Grimsey, coast to coast walk across Northern England, an overland journey to North Macedonia, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/13-december-2024

The long road back to Mandalay, “Freak Street”, the Bourdain zombie page, the world’s largest mammal migration, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/6-december-2024

The rise and fall of Vang Vieng, Famagusta Ghost Town, extreme travelers, Keith Richards on a train, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/29-november-2024

Follow The Travel Wire on Bluesky, tourism at the end of the world, Bali’s first beachfront hotels, Turkey’s Kaçkar Mountains, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/22-november-2024

India’s Kerala Express, Central Asia’s capital of cool, Bangkok is the new Berlin, quokkas, more pygmy hippos, and the world’s largest chicken-shaped building. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/15-november-2024

[The Travel Wire: #9] River swimming in Switzerland, Belgrade to Bar by train, Italy’s Park of Monsters, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/8-november-2024