The Travel Wire: best travel reads #16
After the tsunami, a hike through Iceland's Highlands, the practice of travel, best travel books of 2024, and more travel reads
Welcome to The Travel Wire (by Nomadic Notes), where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Travel reads
• After the tsunami: Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 20 years on (archive)
• Following myths and legends on a hike through Iceland's Highlands
• Couchfish: On the practice of travel: heaven, hell, and all in between.
• Notes on Trinidad and Tobago
• Best travel books of 2024:
- The ten best books about travel of 2024 (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The best travel books of 2024 (Wanderlust)
- Best travel writing of 2024 so far (Tertulia)
• World of wonders: travel lessons of 2024 by Don George
• ‘Each step we take is an escape’: the intrepid hikers exploring war-torn Yemen
“Few Yemenis hike, and female hikers are even rarer. But one group is overcoming security and social challenges to enjoy the benefits of walking in nature.”
• An Irishwoman sailing around the world: ‘This paradise has just seven residents and two dogs’ (archive)
“Dubliner Kate Ashe-Leonard left Ireland in 2017 to live with her partner in London. In 2018, they began their adventure to sail around the world.”
• I’ve worked remotely all over the world: Tbilisi in Georgia is the most welcoming place I’ve tried
• The worst national-parks reviews of the year
““The trees aren’t as big as everyone says” and “I've seen better in video games.” Our national-parks columnist rounded up some scathing reviews of America's Best Idea.”
• Map of The Hippie Trail routes of the 1960s & 1970s
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James Clark (Nomadic Notes)
I spent few months around Socotra island in Yemen in 1990s. Aden was boring . But the ocean was great!