The Travel Wire: best travel reads #15

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

• Roadside colossi: the global allure of a really Big Thing and the Queensland expert plotting their rise

“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)