Stuart McDonald

Here’s Google’s AI scraping Travelfish, removing our affiliate link to Baolau and adding a non-affiliate link to 12Go (who currently isn’t even doing Vn train ticket sales). Happy days.

This guy sounded exactly like what I’d expect someone who’d played Roblox for 20 years would sound like.

Travelfish #561 The Rain Then It Pours Edition A wrap on stuff worth reading

Travelfish #561 The Rain Then It Pours Edition
A wrap on interesting Southeast Asia and sustainable tourism stuff I’ve come across over the last week.
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Thinking of selling up and moving to Bali? These are the downsides - realestate.com.au Packing up the house and moving overseas to Bali sounds like a dream but anyone thinking about it needs to read this.

Australian moves to a tropical country, discovers it is humid and mouldy, has tropical diseases, insects and bugs, and it’s hard to make friends because the joint is “transient”.

Quality content.

www.realestate.com.au/news/thinkin...

Great read.

How I can tell I’m back in Bali. This woman hounds me so.

I’m at 35,000 feet over the middle of Australia and I just got an ad for a burger joint in Budapest.

Sydney.

Travelfish #560 The Scam Hotel Edition A wrap on stuff worth reading

Travelfish #560 The Scam Hotel Edition
A wrap on interesting travel, Southeast Asia, and other random stuff I’ve come across over the last week or so.
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So great to be in Australia again & have some fraud clown run my card through the AppStore for $499.99. Card cancelled, of course replacement won’t be issued till after I’ve left. Exact same thing happened in March when last in Oz. Annoying. This crap never happens to me in Indonesia, Oz meanwhile…

Sydney.

Quality Sydney time. Cinema full of freeloaders (including Lyla & me)

Yeah is batshit

It’s been just so lovely to spend a week or so hanging out with my daughter in Sydney, but holy hell the ads on podcasts and youtube are absolute brain rot. I thought Indonesia was bad, but this stuff—the ageist stuff in particular—is just bonkers.

Too bad Cheney didn’t kick the bucket in The Hague.

Travelfish #559 The Long Quiet Walk Edition A wrap on stuff worth reading

Travelfish #559 The Long Quiet Walk Edition
A wrap on interesting stuff I’ve come across over the last week or so.
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Hey @legalnomads.com @nomadicnotes.bsky.social look what I found? Samsara in Bangkok about a million years ago!

Travelfish #558 The Bike + Mountains Edition A wrap on stuff worth reading

A wrap on interesting stuff somehow related to Southeast Asia I’ve come across over the last week or so. www.travelfish.org/newsletter/n...

Moon set. South Bali.

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

Nice to get out of the madhouse south for a night.

Cooling off Aldo. Skye is unamused.

Yup

About $15

I know whining about the cost of foreign food in bali in naff, but 150,000 for a goddam burrito?

Bali quake!

Travelfish #556 The Less Late Edition A wrap on stuff worth reading

A wrap on interesting Southeast Asia travel-ish stuff I’ve come across since last week. www.travelfish.org/newsletter/n...
Title photo by @faineg.bsky.social Some hard yards there Faine!

Couchfish: What are your intentions? You know you want to travel, but why?

“...learning is all about making your travels intentional—learn about the place & let that learning determine your intentions. By all means source your travel intelligence from wherever works for you, but use that to inform your own learning rather than replace it.
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Yup! A really interesting collection of views.

Travelfish #555 The Paving Over Paradise Edition A wrap on stuff worth reading

Travelfish #555 The Paving Over Paradise Edition
A wrap on interesting stuff I’ve read over the last week or so (yes, sorry, late again). www.travelfish.org/newsletter/n...