Travel Newsletter: 10 May 2024
Bali railway, travel fogginess, Indonesia’s Nglanggeran village, vintage motels, and more travel reads
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
I’ve been in Bali this week to work on a rail guide. A rail guide? In Bali?! Yes, maybe, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I visited the Department of Transport (which I posted in the Future Southeast Asia newsletter), and they helped explain their vision for a Bali railway. There is a plan for an airport railway and a beach tram, so I will link to those when I have published the guides.
I’m still on blogging hiatus until this trip finishes, so new articles will resume at the end of the month. I go to Sulawesi next, which is the last stop in my month in Indonesia.
Travel reads
• In last week’s newsletter I mentioned how I momentarily wondered where I was while an earthquake was happening. It was my third hotel room in three nights, thus the confusion. A reader emailed to say this is travel fogginess, which is easier than saying If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium syndrome.
• An epic 38-mile hike to England's northernmost point
• In Istanbul, the cemeteries are full of life
• Channel Tunnel: 30 years of failing to deliver transcontinental connectivity
• Never thought of it like that: Versailles, a giant nightmarish hotel
🛏️ Accommodation
• Across the United States, vintage motels are being imagined for modern times
• Are disposable hotel slippers the next plastic straws?
🚆Train travel
✈️ Air travel
• Why these Brazilian airplanes loved by passengers are conquering short-haul flying
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James Clark – Bali, Indonesia.