Notes from the Overground

This page is dedicated to my travel series, focussing primarily on my travels to Asia and the Caucasus in the last few years.

Notes from Riga

Notes from Riga

Great bulk, huge mass, the station a Soviet stacija, вокзал. The façade, stone, beige, appended: LATVIJAS DZELZCEĻŠ ORIGO ORIGO.

Notes from Vilnius

Notes from Vilnius

The darkest evening of the year,

Notes from Hong Kong

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November 16, 2024
Notes from Hong Kong

And then touched down on the tarmac. Chek Lap Kok confines the concrete complex to its fish-shaped shores. Levelled by ambition, this island in the New Territories hosts a new airport, rushed unsuccessfully to completion in time for the handover. 26 years later—much more cargo, many more cranes, myriad planes.

Notes from Konya

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July 24, 2023
Notes from Konya

We arrived early from İstanbul—Erdoğan’s high speed trains lace seamlessly across the Anatolian plateau, staining the grey-green steppe blue, white and red. The provincial cities of Turkey reek of change, of investment from a new Sublime Porte. Starboard-side as we journeyed from Konya station—mercilessly ignored by local dolmuş drivers vanishing past—i…