Beautiful comparison of the soundscapes of NYC, London and Venice during lockdown vs a year earlier. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

So in love with this inkyfada | إنكفاضة audio series called Where Were You on January 14, recorded in Tunisian Derja (with English subtitles). Tunisians recall the fall of Ben Ali – next January marks a decade since the start of the Arab Spring: inkyfada.com/en/2020/01/14/…

definitive proof cats are jinn

Beautiful video from BBC News عربي of the Arab experience of London lockdown, from the family of the first NHS doctor to die of coronavirus to a restaurant feeding key workers with strategies learned from living in Palestine. youtube.com/watch?v=4q4Jum…

'The past is a different country, so we’re allowed to invade it, take its stuff, and lie relentlessly about the people who actually live there.' Amazing piece by Laurie Penny on Longreads. longreads.com/2020/06/18/the…

an escape room, but it’s just your thoughts. good luck

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I mean, why even have the DLR running if you can’t sit in the front seats

Not a Versace photoshoot, this is 102 years ago - on Saturday 3rd March 1918. The Great War rages & photographer Paul Castlenau travelled to what became Jordan to take this autochrome of Fayz Bey el Azm (companion of Emir Fayçal) which I've Babelised for you. It is not colourised

#Dubai is offering a new visa for remote workers – and it comes with benefits usually only available to residents. New from me on Lonely Planet. #digitalnomad lonelyplanet.com/articles/dubai…

Americans voted en masse; Results aren’t ready, alas, But one thing is clear Abundantly here And that is the system is ass.

How to digital nomad: 1) Find the cheapest Airbnb in the country – this month, it was on the Isle of Wight. 2) England goes into lockdown, and you’re stuck on an island with beautiful walking trails and daily rainbows. 3) Success!

Didn't think I'd be laugh-crying over B&M and Ribena tonight, but here we are.

It's my first piece for Smithsonian Magazine! Petra is visited by nearly a million people a year, but a few hundred miles to the south in Saudi Arabia is the incredible 'second city' of Hegra, which has just opened to tourists for the first time. smithsonianmag.com/travel/hegra-a…

I was one of the last tourists to ride on Britain's oldest passenger trains still in regular service. Now the 1938 London Tube trains on the Island Line are being upgraded... to a 'new' set of old Tube trains. My first piece for Atlas Obscura! atlasobscura.com/articles/isle-…

I wish I loved anything as much as Kansas City people love wearing anything that advertises the fact they’re from KC when traveling.

I'm so excited to be heading back to #Egypt – and to be working on a guidebook with a major publisher again! Looking for PR and tourism contacts plus info on new openings across the country, but in #Luxor and #Aswan especially. #journorequest #prrequest

Spent the last six weeks in #Egypt, where every day is an adventure. A thread of some favorite moments: off the plane and into a falafel and perfume scam, the Umm Kulthum shisha I should have purchased, شاي بنعناع, impromptu lunch under a highway overpass.