drifting at Angkor
My flight landed at Siem Riep airport after 11pm. Seoul had been cool, but as expected, Cambodia was very hot and very humid, and the airport was crowded and noisy and a blur of colour…
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nightbirds
The Night Bird: cross-border train tracking through the darkened Alps, stars defining the mountain peaks, a chain of moonlit cameos coasting back along the line…
passing by chance
I only chose to visit Morioka because it's on the shinkansen line, around half-way between where I was the day before and where I was going the next day…
maps and travel answers
More of my answers on Quora. This week: maps, cartography, and travel (mostly air travel questions, but featuring "luggage")…
bucket lists
I keep stumbling across “bucket lists” (things to do before you kick it) on the internet. Evidently it's a big, popular thing. I suspect most of them are made by young people, just setting out on their adult life. Travel…
make a wish
In Japan there is a better system than waiting for a shooting star. You go to a Shinto shrine and write/draw your wish on a votive tablet. A lot of people wish for health and wealth, for themselves or…
the High Line
Manhattan's “High Line” - a disused elevated railway line that has now been repurposed as a public footpath - wasn't open yet on my last visit to New York, in 2011. I went to visit it this year. It's brilliant.…
42 things I love about France
* le Tour de France * vast open tracts of countryside * empty motorways * fast trains * Renault cars * Paris * croissants * lots of public art * imaginative and bold public architecture * warmer than England * good food, made from the best ingredients, with plenty of time…