[The Travel Wire #51] Sarajevo, a little walk across Tokyo, Turku, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Sarajevo [The Unplugged Traveler] “There were the Middle Eastern tourists who come in part for Sarajevo’s mosques and Ottoman history, but perhaps more for the refreshing temperatures and– if the line of ladies crowding the aisles of […]
Weekly travel reads: Taiwan the railway destination
[The Travel Wire #50] Old passenger ship hotel in Indonesia, hiking ancient Greek villages, Afghanistan, less bad travel, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Is Taiwan one of the world’s most underrated railway destinations? [Adventure] • He bought the world’s oldest passenger ship — and spent $18 million turning it into a hotel [CNN] […]
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #49
Notes on Bac Ninh, the lost art of hitchhiking, hill-tribe trek in Vietnam, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/15-august-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #48
The Alishan Forest Train, travel to the same place, eight trains from the UK to Turkey, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/8-august-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #47
Guidebooks for China, self-navigating cars in the Faroe Islands, Bruges, the tiny Australian town that became a Nepalese village, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/1-august-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #46
The centuries-old abandoned farmhouses of Puglia, how to travel like Anthony Bourdain, when the icebergs came to town, some of Portugal’s best beaches, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/25-july-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #45
How travel has changed in 20 years, notes on Surabaya, we won’t see most of the world, puffins in Ireland, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/18-july-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #44
Zero Zen in Kyoto and overtourism in Japan, Guizhou’s best-kept secret, Ulaanbaatar, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/11-july-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #43
Spain’s Sierra de la Demanda, North Korea’s huge new beach resort, Europe’s longest train journey, quokkas of Rottnest Island, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/4-july-2025
The Travel Wire: best travel reads #42
Sri Lanka’s Main Line railway, Saigon Zoo, travel blogging and AI, Greece’s tiny Island of outcasts, and more travel reads. View at https://thetravelwire.beehiiv.com/p/27-june-2025


