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The Travel Wire: best travel reads #41
Yemen’s Al-Qahira Castle, An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris, the best books on long-distance journeys, and more travel reads
James Clark
June 19, 2025
The Travel Wire is a weekly newsletter of the best travel reads from around the web, edited by James Clark from Nomadic Notes.
Travel reads
• Yemen’s Al-Qahira Castle survived centuries of war and neglect. Can it survive its own restoration? [Smithsonian Magazine]
"With funding for preserving the historic site in jeopardy, local officials are wondering what will come next for the 800-year-old structure."
• An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris (archive) [The Atlantic]
"My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat."
• ‘The railway that got the world on track’: a walk through 200 years of history in County Durham [The Guardian]
"A new trail follows the 26-mile route of the world’s first passenger train journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway."