The Travel Wire: best travel reads #15
Walking London's Overground lines, airport typeface, Siargao (x2), big roadside things, and more travel reads
Welcome to The Travel Wire (by Nomadic Notes), where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Travel reads
• Six lines, six walks: we explore London’s Overground reboot on foot
• Welcome to smog season: How will air pollution change where and when we travel? (archive)
• Now Boarding: the Story of Airport by Lukas Schneider
An article with big graphics on how airports got the same typeface.
• Siargao, the ‘surf capital of the Philippines,’ is riding a wave of change
• The under-the-radar Filipino island that evokes 1970s Bali (archive)
• The flâneur and the freedom to walk
“The art of wandering is not dependent on wealth, status, or being well-traveled but is a philosophy of life that can be applied to most settings. However, it requires having places to wander freely.”
• Full circle travels to Hong Kong
“Four decades after I first visited anywhere outside Western Australia, I finally got to return to Hong Kong.”
• Where I Go: L.A.’s forbidden, sunken city
“In the ruins of a neighborhood that fell into the ocean, magic teeters precariously above the Pacific.”
• In the midst of a midlife crisis, I booked a one-way ticket to India – this is what happened next
“Traditionally considered a US, Canadian and Australian phenomenon, a new survey shows Big Things are far more universal than previously thought.”
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James Clark (Nomadic Notes)