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Little Europe on Phu Quoc island

China's high-speed railway, the volcano in Iceland, Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, a cool tube map of Southeast Asia, and more travel reads.

James Clark
May 21, 2021
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Hello from Ho Chi Minh City. This week I caught up with my backlog of blog posts, and with no travel on the horizon it might be time to start local blogging. We are back to waiting to see if we go through another lockdown here. At the moment it’s a street-by street lockdown, so vaccines can’t come soon enough.

Covid broke a 20-year run for me where I would visit Europe at least one a year. It’s now looking like it will be 2 straight years without a Euro visit. I had a weird taste of Europe last month when I visited Phu Quoc, were as you will see in this week’s blog post, there are all these new European-style neighbourhoods. I’ve never seen anything like it.

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Southeast Asia's least-visited country

“Traditional East Timorese resource-management laws are helping to preserve the most biodiverse coral reef in the world.”

What else would you expect to see from the President of Iceland’s house…

Twitter avatar for @PresidentISLPresident of Iceland @PresidentISL
Lava discharge from #Fagradalsfjall eruption has increased substanstially in May, weeks after it began. Surprising behaviour, says our expert team of geologists monitoring this extraordinary event, which makes for a spectacular show at night from my residence. 🎥 @ibelegurschi
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And this one looks like an album cover of a Nordic heavy metal band. I had to check to see if was real (the noise appears to be traffic and not actual volcano noises).

Twitter avatar for @ibelegurschiIurie Belegurschi @ibelegurschi
Reykjavik got the World’s most iconic skyline🙌 #Iceland #volcano
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May 14th 2021

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Click through to watch this time-lapse of a pilots perspective of the starry sky

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Maps

Southeast Asia in a tube

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Loved this concept map by Stuart from Travelfish. This map groups famous places and foods of Southeast Asia into different lines of the London Underground network. You can read about how the map came to be here, which he put together while recovering his health.

I had a similar experience in 2016 when I ruptured a disc and was bed bound. I didn’t feel like doing my normal work, so I made a map of proposed railways of Southeast Asia.

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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

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