[The Travel Wire #72] The Italian paradise island with no roads, the slow extinction of budget travel, riding the Bamboo Curtain, North Korea by night, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/23-january-2...

[The Travel Wire #71] Italy’s new nun-mapped pilgrim trail, the hunt for Vietnam’s last floating market, Ko Chang keeps its soul, Nepal’s mountainside teahouses, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/16-january-2...

[The Travel Wire #70] Weekly travel reads: Okunoshima rabbit paradise, Notes on Afghanistan, Georgia’s western Pankisi Valley, Mauritius beyond the beach, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/9-january-20...

Weekly travel reads: The train between Tanzania and Zambia, skiing through a winter wonderland in Norway, Finland’s European Capital of Culture, notes on Taiwan, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/2-january-20...

Weekly travel reads: The island without time [The Travel Wire #68] On synchronicity, Bissau, Mount Fuji, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/26-december-...

Weekly travel reads: Hiking to the Vatican [The Travel Wire #67] Lagoons of Lençóis Maranhenses, Yangon, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/19-decembe...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #66 El Salvador, Sable Island National Park Reserve, Trieste, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/12-decembe...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #65 North Macedonia, holidays in the 1970s, Roof of England walk, Varanasi, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/5-december...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #64 Bhutan, the coffee hub of Vietnam, how Bali has changed for better and worse, cats of Istanbul, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/28-novembe...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #63 Backpacking Greenland, Bangkok during a coup in 1992, the Dolomite Mountains, Somalia, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/21-novembe...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #62 When places change, Leiden, Levuka (Fiji’s original capital), exoplanet tourism, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/14-novembe...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #61 The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route, the forgotten republic of Transnistria, rediscovering the ancient wonders of eastern Turkey, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/7-november...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #60 Peak District, Zhengzhou, Italy's sleeper from Milan to Sicily, the Michinoku Coastal Trail, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/31-october...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #59 Cathedrals and chapels of Wallis Island, ghost month in Taipei, a train tour of Europe’s cool northern capitals, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/24-october...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #58 Vietnam’s ‘Happiness Road’, Iceland, one fine day in the high Himalayas, Jeju, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/17-october...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #57 How a century of tourism shaped the Bali we know today, Chile's Route 7, an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo, Orkney, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/10-october...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #56 Wallis and Futuna, not a travel story, the "cool Camino", Copacabana Beach, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/3-october-...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #55 Syria’s fragile paradise, following James Joyce from Dublin to Trieste by train, visiting the world’s most dangerous places, hungry at the airport, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/26-septemb...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #54 Five travel rules you should always break, from accidental hiker to climbing 87 mountains, a road trip to Turkey’s fairytale north-east, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/19-septemb...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #53 Tulum, Swiss cows, Digital Nomad Village in East Sikkim, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/12-septemb...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #52 The Little Osaka of Thailand, the Doğu Express, carefree or clueless travel, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/5-septembe...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #51 Sarajevo, Albania seizes its moment in the sun, a little walk across Tokyo, Turku, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/29-august-...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads No. 50 - Taiwan the railway destination, - Old passenger ship hotel in Indonesia, - Hiking ancient Greek villages, - Afghanistan, - Less bad travel and more travel reads... www.thetravelwire.net/p/22-august-...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #49 - Notes on Bac Ninh - The lost art of hitchhiking - Hill-tribe trek in Vietnam and more travel reads... www.thetravelwire.net/p/15-august-...

Best travel reads No. 48 - The Alishan Forest Train - Travel to the same place, - Eight trains from the UK to Turkey and more travel reads at... www.thetravelwire.net/p/8-august-2...

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... www.thetravelwire.net/p/1-august-2...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #46 The centuries-old abandoned farmhouses of Puglia, how to travel like Anthony Bourdain, when the icebergs came to town, some of Portugal’s best beaches, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/25-july-2025

How travel has changed in 20 years, notes on Surabaya, we won't see most of the world, puffins in Ireland, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/18-july-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #44 Zero Zen in Kyoto and overtourism in Japan, Guizhou’s best-kept secret, Ulaanbaatar, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/11-july-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #43 Spain’s Sierra de la Demanda, North Korea’s huge new beach resort, Europe's longest train journey, quokkas of Rottnest Island, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/4-july-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #42 Sri Lanka’s Main Line railway, Saigon Zoo, travel blogging and AI, Greece’s tiny Island of outcasts, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/27-june-2025

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 www.thetravelwire.net/p/20-june-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads No. 40 Comparing Da Nang and Nha Trang, the secret CIA base in Laos, the reinvention of Catania, Sumba is not Bali, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/13-june-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #39 Tirana’s pyramid, A hike through stormy Daisetsuzan, Riga, Australia's biggest lake, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/6-june-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads Notes on Bandung, walking Britain's entire coast, Lord Howe Island, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/30-may-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #37 Japan's unstaffed train stations, Luxembourg by bus, Germany’s Camino trek, and more travel reads. www.thetravelwire.net/p/23-may-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #36 Coffee farms, hobo handbook, surfing Siargao, fake travel photos, Famagusta ghost town, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/16-may-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #35 Hitchhiking, "Beni York", The Ertholm Islands, abandoned hotels, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/9-may-2025

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #34 The historic fort city of Bengkulu, overland from Leeds to Georgia, Rottnest Island, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/2-may-2025

How far can we go on the old hippy trail? Overland from Leeds to Georgia www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #32 City walks, Casablanca, bucket lists, the food capital of the world, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/18-april-2...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #29 The new American travel anxiety, an 8,000-mile rail journey from England to the Taj Mahal, walking in solitude and sunshine in Sicily, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/28-march-2...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #28 The unlikely revival of a great Middle Eastern railroad , the end of the line in South Sumatra, the dark side of wanderlust, the car-free village reached by cable car, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/21-march-2...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #27 Former and active DMZs, the powder capital of Asia, Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, the world’s biggest heavy metal cruise www.thetravelwire.net/p/14-march-2...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #25 Exploring ‘the last paradise on Earth’—in a sea kayak, Koh Mak, Visiting the Beatles ashram in Rishikesh, The London Tunnels www.thetravelwire.net/p/28-februar...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #23 Discover Shimokitazawa (Tokyo), the weird psychology of airports, the hidden side of Ho Chi Minh City, Uzbekistan's tourism boom, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/14-februar...

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #17 On travel media's misguided obsession with the "local" experience.”, navigating reverse culture shock, Laos, Sardinia, Mekong Delta in harvest season, and more travel reads www.thetravelwire.net/p/3-january-...

On travel media's misguided obsession with the "local" experience. trying.beehiiv.com/p/tourists-r...

11 of Europe’s Most Beautiful Train Stations www.afar.com/magazine/eur... #traintravel #railwaystations #travel

Charting a thru hike across the Roof of the World horizonguides.com/journal/buil...