Travel Newsletter: 8 October 2021
Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities, how Matera left its dark days behind, and the only tourist in the entire country.
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Greetings from Budva in Montenegro, where in the space of a week we have gone from glorious Mediterranean blues to off-season grey. I’ve been moving around a lot this week so there are no new blog posts. I have a backlog of writing for when I slow down next week.
Here are this week’s interesting travel reads from around the web.
COVID-19 and travel
Some more news and links regarding the gradual reopening of Southeast Asia…
• Indonesia's Bali to reopen to some foreign tourists from mid-October
• Vietnam mulls welcoming select foreign tourists ahead of full June resumption
Assorted travel reads
• Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
• I Had a chance to travel anywhere. Why did I pick Spokane?
“After 18 months of pandemic parenting isolation, the writer Jon Mooallem knew just where the cure might lie: a minor-league baseball game in eastern Washington.”
• The rest has to be eaten....
This ode to street food in Saigon has me missing Vietnamese food something bad.
• When Anthony Bourdain invited Obama to dinner... in Hanoi
• Bhutan tourism and border closures: Meet the only tourist in the entire country
• Can an average passenger actually be talked through landing a plane in an emergency?
• Need to call an airline? Your hold time will be approximately one zillion hours
“Customers find excruciatingly long wait times; ‘By hour seven I was questioning my entire existence’.”
• John Margolies’ photographs of roadside America
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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
We lived in Matera for a month back in 2018, and when I first saw the trailer for No Time to Die, I jumped out of my chair blurting out, "Holy crap, that's Matera!" I'm glad this wonderful town is getting a moment in the sun -- especially since it had such a dark recent history.