Travel Newsletter: 23 June 2023
A walk in Zadar, the hunt for the missing Orient Express trains, Italy’s vanishing towns
Hello from Danang! I’m back in Vietnam where I continue alternating between here and Thailand. Danang is one of my pillar cities for
so there is always something for me to do here. I was walking around to update the construction guide, and I was surprised to see a Nobu Hotel going up here. This is the hotel that is part-owned by Robert Ne Niro.Another addition since I was last here is a new electric taxi company.
After posting two articles on Nomadic Notes last week, I didn’t post any this week. Expect a new article next week, and the monthly edition of
will also be going out.Travel reads
• A walk in Zadar: A loop through history
This is one city in The New York Times series: 7 Great Cities, 7 Great Walks.
• The hunt for the missing Orient Express trains
• An excellent view of oblivion: On Italy’s vanishing towns
• Fortresses and feuds: the Maniot Land of Greece
• An island in Finland is asking travelers to ditch their phones
“This summer, tourism officials want you to voluntarily disconnect when visiting Ulko-Tammio, an uninhabited nature island tucked in the Eastern Gulf of Finland National Park.”
• A road trip across the cradle of civilisation
• Follow Bob Dylan’s footsteps through Minnesota and New York
• Opinion: With new Vietnam guide, Michelin has failed Asian street food again
🚆Train travel
• The monthly edition of Europe Rail News went out this week. I curate this newsletter to keep myself updated on Euro rail travel news. For example, I discovered that the Sarajevo-Ploče train service has resumed. Ploče is in Croatia and I tried to do this tip when I was there in 2021. Subscribe for the next edition here.
✈️ Air travel
• The world’s best airlines for 2023, according to Skytrax
• People are still being awful on flights, and no one really knows why
• A dress code for flying? Yes, and here's why we need one now
“People who dress up are less likely to act up, say experts.”
Good round up, as usual.
Have you had any issues getting Vietnam visas? Any luck with longer than 30 day, multiple entry? Still single entry, 30 day in the US unless of Vietnamese ethnicity, then 5 year. Hoping for return to 1 year, multi entry as before at less than exorbitant cost. Or ASEAN visa 🙄
Also, dress code when flying. Lol.
We only discovered Transavia last year and I was amazed to learn how long it had been around!