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Why I Often Returned to Napier, New Zealand (opens the original)
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There are places you visit once, enjoy, and happily move on from. Napier was never one of those places for us. When we lived in Wellington, we would happily make the four-hour drive north just to spend a weekend there, and I don’t remember ever thinking, well, we’ve seen it now. Somehow, Napier never got old.Of course, the Art Deco architecture is the obvious attraction, but Napier doesn’t just preserve its history behind glass. It has fun with it. Vintage cars drive through the streets, festiva
The Best Travel Accessory I Own Isn't a Suitcase (opens the original)
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For the past twenty years or so, I have rarely been outdoors without a sun hat. It has become such a normal part of my wardrobe that I hardly think about it anymore. Look through photographs of me almost anywhere in the world, and there is a good chance I am wearing one. Walking through a market in Dubai, sitting on a cruise ship deck, wandering through a park, or simply having coffee on a sunny terrace, the hat is almost always there.That probably seems a little unusual given the era in which I
China so far, more than I could have wished (opens the original)
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We’re about halfway through our China trip, which seems like the right time to pause the quick Notes and connect some of the larger threads. The Notes capture what I’m seeing in the moment; this is the fuller version of what has impressed me, exhausted me, unsettled me and stayed with me.If you’d like more than the occasional postcard, a paid subscription gives you these longer stories and helps support the newsletter.Shanghai probably should have prepared me for the rest of China. Everything se
Are We Really More Vulnerable Abroad? (opens the original)
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This post is scheduled for September, while we are in China and is a counterargument about our vulnerability. One of the questions I hear most often is whether I worry when I travel. Or it is a statement like: “I could never go there; it is not safe.”I recently read a post about just how vulnerable we can be while travelling. It wasn’t meant to be a list of warnings or an exercise in scare tactics, but I couldn’t help feeling the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I read it.It made me thin
Can I Run a Substack With Only an iPhone? One Month. No Laptop. No Excuses. (opens the original)
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The Pressure to Keep ProducingOne of the stranger things about writing online is that nobody explicitly tells you that you must constantly publish, yet many of us behave as though an invisible supervisor is standing behind our shoulder with a clipboard.A few days without posting can create an odd sense of guilt. A week away from the keyboard, and some creators start imagining their audience has forgotten they exist. Statistics, subscriber counts and engagement numbers have a way of convincing us
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