Where I’m At is my monthly travel and site update, and other random bits that don’t fit anywhere else. Follow my travel newsletter for more updates, including interesting travel reads from around the web. Ukraine While Nomadic Notes is not a current affairs site, it would be weird to talk about island-hopping in the tropics […]
Notes on Istanbul
“Why did I take so long to come back?!” This is what I exclaimed to myself after my refamiliarisation wander through the streets of Istanbul. The last time I was here was in 2013, and I think I said the same thing after returning from my first visit in 2011. My original plan was to […]
Where I’m At: February 2022 – Koh Lanta
Happy Lunar New Year from Koh Lanta! May your year of the tiger be a good one 🐯. Where I’m At is my monthly travel and site update. More regular updates can be found at my travel newsletter, which includes the most interesting travel reads from around the web. Where I’ve been Cambodia View this […]
Notes on Tirana
Tirana is the capital city of Albania, and it has a population of about half a million in a country of about 2.8 million. A small city in a small country, and yet I felt compelled to spend two weeks here without knowing much about it. I arrived at the bus station outside of the […]
Where I’m At: January 2022 – Phnom Penh
Happy New Year from Phnom Penh! Where I’m At is my monthly travel and site update, where I look back at what I’ve been up to for the last month. More regular updates can be found at my weekly travel newsletter, which includes the most interesting travel reads from around the web. Where I’ve been […]
Notes on Coastal Montenegro – Bar, Budva, Tivat, and Kotor
Montenegro is positioning itself as a destination for digital nomads, and it was until recently offering citizenship through investment. It has since scrapped this program in order to prepare to apply for EU membership. It already uses the Euro, so it already feels like its on the way. Most international interest in Montenegro is along […]
Where I’m At: December 2021 – Bangkok (quarantine edition)
Where I’m At is my monthly travel and site update. Subscribe to my travel newsletter for weekly updates and the most interesting travel reads from around the web. Where I’ve been It’s been a month of exploring two cities as I hop my way back to my homeland. Istanbul View this post on Instagram A […]
Notes on Podgorica – From provincial outpost to nation’s capital
Podgorica is one of the world’s youngest capital cities. Its relative youth as a seat of power goes some way to explaining why Podgorica feels more like a provincial outpost than the nation’s capital. Montenegro became a new country in 2008 after seceding from the union of Serbia and Montenegro. During that time, Belgrade was […]
Notes on Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and apart from the siege, the assassination, and the Winter Olympics, I didn’t know much about the city. For my generation, the name Sarajevo is probably as synonymous with conflict as Saigon is for a Boomer. I visited Sarajevo without researching what to see so I could […]
Notes on Mostar – Visiting the famous bridge of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mostar is home to one of the most famous bridges in Europe. For those of us who lived through the nineties news cycle of the Yugoslav Wars, it become a symbol of the war when it was destroyed during the Bosnian War in 1993. The Stari Most (Old Bridge) has since been reconstructed and is […]
