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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
James Clark
July 31, 2025
The Travel Wire is a weekly newsletter of the best travel reads from around the web.
Travel reads
• What happened to China travel guides? [Thomas Bird for China Books Review]
"Guidebooks for China boomed from the 1980s to the 2010s. Then the Covid pandemic hit. With fewer visitors, and travel guides going out of print in the digital age, what are we missing?"
"Would you follow turn-by-turn directions to an unknown destination? The Faroe Islands are betting on it."
• Bruges, unexpected: Warmth amid the tourist trampling [Travelling Troubadour]
"I went to Bruges expecting a tourist trap but was instead surprised by warm welcomes and quiet, magical evenings."