Hanoi Train Street
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Hanoi Train Street – An infrastructure anomaly that’s become an Instagram sensation
Hanoi train street is a passageway that has a single railway line passing through it. It’s now a famous tourist attraction where you can sit in a cafe by the tracks while watching the train go by.
Travel Reads and News
What ‘Victory’ Looks Like: A Journey Through Shattered Syria
“On an eight-day visit, New York Times journalists given rare access to Syria found ruin, grief and generosity. What was missing after eight years of civil war? Young men and a middle class.”
A Walk In Hong Kong (Idle Words)
A visitors account of what is happening in Hong Kong.
I Hide Giants That I Make From Wood In The Wilderness Of The Belgian Forest
“I build giant wooden trolls around the world to take people away from the concrete cities and computer screens, to lure them into the wild and allow them to…”
30 years since Qantas' top-secret record-holding 747 flight from London to Sydney
“It is 30 years since Qantas’s bold, record-holding 747 jumbo’s continuous flight from London to Sydney in what was a marathon journey featuring specially-made fuel and covert planning.”
Take a plunge back in time to the 1920s in the new Orient Express suites
“The legendary Orient Express train, with its atmosphere of the first decades of the 20th century, will be adding three new grand suites in 2020.”
Welsh explorer becomes 'first person to walk China's Yangtze River'
“A man from North Wales has claimed to be the first person to complete a 4,000 mile expedition on foot along China’s Yangtze River.”
Passport Stamps
Gallery of passport stamps by country or territory
An open-source project to archive passport stamps of every country in the world.
Seen On Twitter
Me: Let’s limit the carbs this week
Also me: https://t.co/7JUFN8gfdF
Hue, Vietnam.