Chris Arnade Walks the World

3 days 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.

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

I’ve written about Seoul five previous times (Walking Seoul part 1, part 2, part 3, I could live in Seoul, and Seoul Stopover), so for a more positive perspective, please read those. I love Seoul, which is why I keep coming back, beginning or ending all my Asia trips there. If actions speak louder than words, then Seoul is my favorite city in the world, since I’ve now visited it seven times in the last four years. I love Seoul because it’s functional at a level few global cities are.

1 month ago | walkingtheworld.substack.com | Chris Arnade

(My three prior China pieces —Walking Shanghai, walking Beijing, and the more reflective piece, Beijing versus Shanghai.)I arrived in Xi'an worried I wasn't going to be able to eat a proper dinner. My flight from Tashkent landed at nine thirty, which given my prior Chinese experience probably meant I'd get to my hotel as everything was closing. But Xi'an is very different from Beijing and Shanghai.