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

Richard Barrow @RichardBarrow

🇹🇭 Amazing Thailand. Now even more Amazing. The wait is nearly over. New advertising campaign by the Tourism Authority of Thailand. What do you think? #Thailand

October 6th 2021

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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.

• City in new James Bond movie No Time to Die is ‘Shame of Italy’ no more: how Matera left its dark days behind

• 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’.”

• They left the U.S. to ‘live the beach life and save money’ — take a look at what they eat, spend and do in a week

• John Margolies’ photographs of roadside America

Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn

I went up @TowerBridge, sat on its somewhat terrifying glass floor and made this sped-up video of its bascules being raised & lowered

October 7th 2021

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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