singapore - the lion city

went on a backpacking trip to singapore. arrived (in style) at Tanjung Pagar Train Station at 8.50am. the train ride was not bad at all, i slept well in my cabin berth. i was more than happy to backpack to singapore for this business + pleasure trip...

 

Trip of a lifetime

Shopping. A woman's downfall and yet the source of such entertainment and happiness! Julie has said throughout this trip that she was saving all of her shopping until South-East Asia because it's sooo much cheaper here. And she has pretty much kept h...

 

um-die-welt 2007

Mit etwas Verspaetung komme ich endlich dazu hier ueber meine Erlebnisse auf dieser Reise zu berichten. Also Argentinien die Erste: Meine erste Station ist Buenos Aires. Eine Stadt mit Charme der Alten Welt vermischt mit einem kraeftigen Schuss Modern...

 

A Week In Southern Spain

After a great friday night farewell party for our fellow New Zealander Caroline who we met on our Gullet Cruise in Turkey and is heading back home we spent a cruisy saturday morning packing. We then travelled by Rail to Stansted Airport for our 5.30 f...

 

Backpacking South East Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore

After a butt-bruising bus ride from Siem Reap, Cambodia to the Thailand border, one could only breathe a sigh of relief as Thailand offered smooth, paved roads and double decked, padded seated buses. It was as if the border was the invisible line of a...

 

South-East Asia 2006

around town did lonley planet walk up to no 10...

 

Europe and Asia Extravaganza 2006

Hi! I have skipped over this entry temporarily. I have someone anxiously waiting on news about Ireland. I will come back to it as soon as I can. Best wishes from Yangshuo, China, Tiff...

 

London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

 

Singapore 2006

My Singapore trip...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

 

Singapore

After the initial shock of the heat stepping off the plane! We headed to our hostel near little India. Driving through the city I did't realise how grren it would be and so clean!! This evening discovered that our map reading skill are rubbish in the...

 

the big trip

Left Portland and headed for the big Smoke!!!! Enjoyed a week seeing family and friends. On the 18th i flew to london. Its Cold wet and horrible....

 

My OS Experience

Left Australia...

 

Southeast Asia 2006-2007

Our plan after Flores was to fly out to Papua to explore the Baniem valley - a place so concealed by mountains that it was only discovered in the 1930s. However, it proved impossible to get tickets as the computers of Garuda Airlines had gone down. Giv...

 

My Life In London

Well, I never thought it would actually happen. After all the talk, I finally found myself at Heathrow on Tuesday last week greeting the big Tongan, Andrew Petrie. We'd initially planned to head over here together but when he committed to another f...

 

flying north for summer

We've been reading more about the history of this place, and yesteray went to a film about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, so we're slowly managing to understand a bit more of the dismal past of Cambodia - although the more you learn about it the less it ...

 

worldtrip 2002-2003

I travelled around the globe during 1 year. Continents i visited: South-America, Fiji-islands, NZ, OZ, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, India and Nepal....

 

Southeast Asia 2006/07

Well after arriving from the so clean city of Singapore, I quickly made my way to the southern bus station direct from the airport. I caught a bus to Damnoen Saduak and the following morning booked out a boat from a nice man Aree (081 9415952). That...

 

Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...

 

Around the world in 80 days

Well yesterday did not go too great, was not WOW, was ok. I did meet my objectives of meeting some new people. I chatted, as I sat next to a 400BC temple, to an India man, 50, who distributes Coca-Cola throughout India, then as happens when a Weste...

 

Singapore

When arriving in Singapore it was a pleasent surprise, very different from the rest of Asia, it felt a bit like England very clean and orderly. We headed for a suburb called Little India and found it a bit difficult to get accommation, everywhere was b...

 

The Far East 2006

We have now safely arrived back into the UK after a gruelling 15 hours on the plane and 3 hours transfer. I can't believe its been 5 weeks!! It has flown by but has been soo good we will telling our stories for many weeks to come. So the last few d...

 

Updated overview: The world according to Graham and Nick 2006/7

1/12/06 Well three months into the trip and we thought we would give you an update of the grand plan, where we will be when etc as it has changed since we set off. We stayed longer in the states, cut short the stay in Tahiti and have extended our stay...

 

Singapore and my fathers time as a POW

Hi all We are in Singapore at present. For those who don't know my father Allen Godfrey Jones was a POW during WW11. Whilst here I am doing research on my father's time as a POW at Changi. My fathers tribute page is at the following and if an...

 

South East Asia 2007

Dalat is a flourishing market town up in the Central Highland hills halfway down Vietnam. We were only here a short time but went on a city tour day trip to see some of the local sights. This involved places such as waterfalls, a buddhist temple an...

 

5 Days 4 Nights in Singapore & Malaysia @ 2006 Oct

13.10.06-17.10.06 @ Singapore, K.L. & Genting Singapore, went there before since i was 13. K.L. & Genting, 1st time to visit. This time, I travel with Ching, Man & Ching's bf. Nice Nice of ching's bf's sister-- Dora. Sometimes, m...

 

vagrant

Where I stand now, is the town of Tromso, Norway, where the northern lights and the midnight sun resides... ...

 

Grand ol' world tour

The Navimag cargo ferry, our home for five nights and the best fun you can have on a ship loaded with cargo trucks, cows and sea-sick passengers. Travelling on the first trip of the high season meant that the boat was only a third full. Which was exc...

 

Clean in Singapore

Back to work again. Moved into a sumptuous new modern apartment in Sydney, with the biggest balcony I`ve ever had. I smell some good bbq`s are going to happen this summer, followed with some good nightlife and clubbin`. Life could not become better th...

 

FiNaL dEsTiNaTiOn

Visit there a few times, never really get a very good impression out of it. Mayb compare to singapore that place is more dirty, and security wise sad to say i am afraid to roam alone in the night......