Vietnam rail guide
Travel Newsletter: 6 January 2023. Travel Reads: Packing books, book vacations, Pitcairn Islands, Northern Lights, the best European train routes to try in 2023.
Happy New Year from Ho Chi Minh City! Hope you have some exciting travel plans for the year ahead. I have a visa run and a beach trip booked this month, in addition to entertaining visiting friends.
I’m expanding the rail guides on the blog this month. This week’s post is a guide to every rail line in Vietnam.
Latest posts at Nomadic Notes
Vietnam Railways – A guide to every line, tickets, and FAQs
Travel reads
“Do travel books really deserve a place in your luggage?”
• Aranui V Cruise Tahiti to the Pitcairn
“An unusual Tahitian cruise ship takes us to unusual destinations.”
• The emotional benefits of wandering (archive)
“The more you roam to unexpected urban places, the happier you are, researchers have found, especially for adolescents.”
• Falling for Old Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City by
“An essay on expatriate nostalgia in a rapidly developing metropolis.”
• Listicle season is upon us again. CNN tells us where to travel in 2023, while The Telegraph tells us that these are the 20 places you must visit in 2023. Must I, The Telegraph? Must i?
• If I ever needed confirmation that I am not missing anything by not using TikTok, Pattaya Beach was named the second most popular beach in the world on TikTok.
• ‘Cheap compared with most holidays’: booking a vacation just to read
• 2022 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year
• You’re going to need a smaller boat: Island hopping in the Grenadines
• A reminder of how big and sparsely populated my homeland is (via Greyhound Australia).
🚆Train travel
• The best European train routes to try in 2023
• Japan's beloved slow-motion train
✈️ Air travel
• When will air travel return to pre-pandemic levels?
The Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter is a weekly newsletter of the best travel reads and interesting travel news from around the web, and random ramblings by the editor.
- James Clark