Marvelous Melbourne
Fastest trains in Southeast Asia, a remote highway along the Arabian Sea, a rare filling of Lake Eyre, and more travel reads.
MELBOURNE - The season of reunions continues, with more borders reopening across Southeast Asia. Laos is on the cusp of reopening, and Malaysia and Singapore have now reopened. I enjoyed this reunion of a man and his dogs after the Singapore/Malaysia border reopened.
I’ve seen most of my family members in Australia, and I also reunited with my sister’s cat (if I had a cat reunion and didn’t Tik-Tok it, did I even have a reunion?)
I’ve been doing a lot of walking around inner-city Melbourne, admiring the buildings of the Marvelous Melbourne era. It is good to be back.
Assorted travel reads
• Fastest trains in Southeast Asia
I made a list to sate my own curiosity.
• A remote highway along the Arabian Sea
• Beaches Nearby is building a crowdsourced directory of every beach in the world (inspired by Nomad List).
• In Europe, it’s planes vs. trains. For many travelers, rail is the way to go.
• Rail route of the month: Barcelona to Cádiz, the slow train right across Spain
• Amtrak shares sneak peek inside new high-speed Acela trains
• ‘Absolutely amazing’: Lake Eyre dances with colour thanks to big La Niña rains
• Darwin now has Qantas’ longest and shortest international flights
With the two flights of 50-minutes and 17-hours, this must be a record for any airline. I visited Darwin in 2017, and I wrote about how Darwin should become a hub for flights from across Asia. It’s a good entry point to Australia if you are coming from Bali, and I will see if I can do this 50-minute flight from Dili the next time I come back to Australia.
• TikToks and virtual cultural tours a boom for Katherine tourism business
• How Airbnb reshaped Cuba’s tourism economy in its own image
• Exploring the greatest of Italy’s 6,000 ghost towns: take a tour of Craco, Italy
• What it would be like to get stranded on one of the most remote islands in the world
• I’m packing again. After hardcore nomadding since August, I think I’m the latter at this point…
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- James Clark
Hi James,I must remember to stop following links.I do not click on twitter or facebook for privacy reasonds.I should include additional links from now on.
James,do you read the links you post in your nomadic Notes emails? In the Melbourne paragraph there is a story on the singapore and his golden retriever dogs greeting one another.Reading further in there are stories about the Chinese "authorities" beating domestic pets to death after the owners have been taken away for quarantine.I cannot put in writing my comments-who might be watching?