Travel Newsletter: 13 October 2023
Notes on Boten, passport stamps, take a nice selfie ... and leave, the cheapest European capital for digital nomads, and more travel reads
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Continuing with my Laos trip report, I wasn’t sure if I would write about Boten. I went but I didn’t go, which is a story in itself. I saw enough of this mirage of a city to make me want to go back for a proper visit.
Latest posts at Nomadic Notes
• Notes on Boten: The border station of the Laos-China Railway
Travel reads
• Passport stamps being phased out around the world as paper-free travel technology moves closer
• The uneven distribution of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• The islands that went from whale hunting to whale watching
• Indian art attack: Why the world’s best street artists are flocking to Delhi
• ‘Spending money to get nothing’: the latest on resort fees
• Why India, in a first, plans to study how its citizens travel
💻 Nomad news
• This is officially the cheapest European capital for digital nomads
🚆Train travel
• A love letter to the UK’s railways
• In Northern France, riding the rails into the past
• Spain’s high-speed trains aren’t just efficient, they have transformed people’s lives
• $33 for an upgrade to first class? Europe’s trains are incredible
• 6 of the best luxury trains around the world
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James Clark – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.