Chris Arnade
Writer at Chris Arnade Walks the World
Author and Writer, Photographer at Freelance
Walking the world, one city at a time. I like turtles, cats, & buses. Subscribe to my Substack: https://t.co/j6mE4TVfBl
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1 week ago |
walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade
(This is my fourth long walk in Japan. The prior eight posts from those trips: From Tokyo to Takasaki, A retreat to Niigata, A pointless little Japan story, From Akashina to Fuji, Walking Fuji, Playgrounds and manhole covers, From Fukuoka to Nagasaki, Burnout in Japan)Japanese cities are not pretty, and Sapporo might be the ugliest.
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2 weeks ago |
walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade
(I will be in Sapporro from Friday to Tuesday, then walking/riding-trains to Muroran on the south coast of Hokkaidō. Before returning home I’ll make my now normal stop in Seoul, from Wednesday the fourth to the eighth. If you are around, join me for a walk in Japan, or if in Seoul, for a night at the Woodstock vinyl bar in Sillim.)Montreal is good, very good.
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3 weeks ago |
walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade
My last morning in Italy was in a distant suburb of Milan, my plans for a low-stress travel day upended by a rail strike. Determined to get food before the long maze of international travel began, I headed to the plaza at six a.m., the one with the six-hundred-year-old Renaissance sanctuary, not the one with the five-hundred-year-old Baroque basilica, to try and find something, anything really, to eat.
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1 month ago |
walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade
(This is my second piece on walking Lombardy. The first piece is on walking from Milan to Brescia.) I was five miles outside of Brescia, hiking through a corn field towards Montichiari, when I knew I might be in trouble. Contrary to all the pre-trip weather reports not only wasn't there any rain, but there wasn't a single cloud in the sky.
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1 month ago |
walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade
Next week I'm going to set off from Milan to try and walk the two hundred miles to Padua. This will be my tenth long-distance trek, which I written about before, and I prefer these move-every-day-with-everything-on-my-back trips, but organizing them is immensely frustrating.
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The same group of people behind this sort of crap used to mock me for doing "poverty safaris" and well, my version was 20 mil cheaper, and I actually got out of my car instead of this weird cold scientist shit
Democrats set out to study young men. Here are their findings. https://t.co/cUIqDQw0KF
US leads world in providing proper paper products. Try getting a napkin anywhere else and it’s maybe one tiny tissue paper that crumbles on touch
@Chris_arnade Not many napkins in any Japanese restaurant...always used to notice that
RT @AlecMacGillis: Every Sunday, the print classifieds in metro newspapers are full of listings for tech jobs that aren't actually open. It…