Where I’m At is my monthly travel and site update, and other random ramblings from the editor (me). More regular updates can be found at the weekly travel newsletter, which includes interesting travel reads from around the web. Where I’ve been This is an overview of where I’ve been over the last month. Detailed blog […]
Notes on Ko Samet – The closest beach-break island from Bangkok
Ko Samet is an island on the Eastern Gulf Coast of Thailand, approximately 220 kilometres southeast of Bangkok. It’s technically not the closest island to Bangkok, but it’s the closest nice island to Bangkok (and much nicer than the closest beach to Bangkok). It’s this proximity that has made Ko Samet synonymous with boatloads of […]
Where I’m At: April 2022 – Melbourne
Where I’m At is my monthly travel and site update, and other random ramblings from the editor (me). More regular updates can be found at the weekly travel newsletter, which includes interesting travel reads from around the web. Where I’ve been This is an overview of where I’ve been over the last month. Detailed blog […]
The desolation of Khao San Road
Khao San Road is the famous backpacker street of Bangkok. This road and surrounding streets is the budget travel hub of Southeast Asia. In normal times it is a spectacle like no other place in the world. When the Covid-19 virus reduced travel to a trickle in March 2020, Thailand closed its borders to international […]
Notes on Bangkok – Thailand’s cautious reopening
On November 1 2021 Thailand reopened international travel with the Test and Go scheme. This system offered entry for select international arrivals with one day quarantine before being allowed to travel freely in the country. I waited a month for the system to be running before returning, and these are my notes from one month […]
Notes on Dubai – Expo 2020, South Asia food paradise, Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah and more
Dubai is a place I’ve wanted to spend more time in to have a proper look around, so I got that chance in November 2021. I have been to Dubai twice before on brief stopovers. Both of those visits were in the summer when the city is practically uninhabitable (45c days), and a one day […]
Where I’m At: March 2022 – Udon Thani
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 […]
