Travel Newsletter: 18 November 2022
Where I’m At: Chiang Mai, Thailand. Latest Post: Travel Twitter and the future of social media. Travel Reads: A tramway for Hue, Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2023, Banksy in Ukraine, and more...
Greetings from Chiang Mai! I’m not doing any travel for the rest of this month while I work on some projects. I have a transit concept map coming out next week, which has been taking me longer than expected (these maps always do).
I have a bunch of meetings planned while I eat my way through my favourite food places. I went to the “cowboy hat lady” at the North Gate market, and I Googled to see if there was a name for the stall. It turns out she was featured by Anthony Bordain.
Latest posts at Nomadic Notes
• Travel Twitter and the future of social media
Last week I mentioned I set up a Mastodon account, which sent me down another rabbit hole about the future of social media as it relates to travel blogging.
Travel reads
• Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2023
The annual LP listicle is out now, but the destinations are grouped by experience rather than region this year.
One of the things I like about visiting Europe is finding tram systems in provincial cities (for example, Ostrava). Transit systems in Southeast Asia are rare outside the capitals (Palembang being an exception), so I hope that this tramway gets built.
• Jervis Bay Territory: Australia's weird, little-known third mainland territory
• Banksy reveals how he worked in war-torn Ukraine with new video of artworks
• North Macedonia's quirky micronation
• Tokyo’s iconic capsule tower cubes get a new lease on life
“Designed by Kisho Kurokawa, almost two dozen units from the dismantled architectural icon are being restored to become museum pieces.”
• From pirates’ hideout to Dalí’s bolthole: Cadaqués, star of Spain’s Costa Brava
• Ho-ho-hop aboard these festive holiday train rides
• These Americans quit flying for the planet
The Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter is a weekly newsletter of the best travel reads, interesting travel news from around the web, and random ramblings by the editor.
- James Clark
JC, good to hear the Cowboy Hat Lady made it through the pandemic and is still rocking the stewed pork leg. She is dedicated to her craft. I miss Chang Mai...could use some Khao Soi right now. Snow and single digit temps in Minneapolis.
Hi James was trying to search on universeodon.com but couldnt see that function . Here's an invite:
https://universeodon.com/invite/AfjQrYwU