Travel Newsletter: 15 September 2023

Walking Prince Edward Island, the Airbnbpocalpse, off the beaten track in Japan, paper boarding passes, and a dream rail route.

Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.

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Travel reads

• UNESCO World Heritage Site contenders 2023

• A long walk on a small(ish) island

“On Prince Edward Island, in eastern Canada, a writer finds her rhythm, along with equal parts solitude and camaraderie, as she treks from inn to inn on part of a new 435-mile trail.”

• Once beset by violence, this city in Colombia now struggles with too many tourists

• The world’s biggest national park is larger than most countries

• Japan is swamped with tourists. Now visitors are going off the beaten track

• This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn from it

• What to know about the 'beach towel revolt' taking back Greek beaches

• Commentary: What should we do about Instagram colonialism?

• Forsaken tales! 14 of the most popular abandoned hotels around the world

• 65-year-old Australian cycles over 9,000km from Australia to Singapore

• Swiss adventurer completes three-month solo trek through Australian desert

🛏️ Airbnb

• This Is the true scale of New York’s Airbnb apocalypse

• What if we reviewed everything like we're now supposed to review Airbnbs?

• Which U.S. cities have high Airbnb densities?

🚆Train travel

• France will launch a €49 rail pass after the success of the ‘Deutschlandticket’

• First-ever Bhutan-India railway link to become a reality

As much as I am intrigued about flying with Drukair, I think this is how I want to arrive in Bhutan.

• Following up on the news about the Eurostar ski service to the Alps, Snowcarbon helps skiers and snowboarders travel to ski resorts by train in the Alps from the UK. 

✈️ Air travel

• What a summer of hellish flights taught us about flying now

• Final call for paper boarding passes? 

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James Clark – Chiang Mai, Thailand.