Posts tagged 'Travels'
12 February 2010This had already been my last day in Singapore, my flight to Melbourne was scheduled for around 8pm. I checked out early, called a taxi to the airport, put my luggage in storage and went back into town with another taxi. I wanted to spend my last day on Sentosa, some sort of theme park …
11 February 2010A city tour was part of my travel package so I was picked up early and driven to a bus company in the city from where the tour started.
We stopped at various points in the city, including a Chinese temple and a gem factory (no tour without a visit in at least one gem factory …
10 February 2010When I returned from my visit to Germany on Christmas I didn’t fly back to Australia immediately, instead I had another stop-over for a couple of days, this time in Singapore. I had been in Singapore before, when I first traveled to Australia in 2008, but I didn’t leave the airport then. This time I …
28 January 2010My last day in Thailand, my departure flight was scheduled for midnight. I arranged late checkout with the hotel so I was able to use my room until 4pm. I like hanging out in parks and botanic gardens, so I decided to spend the last day in Lumphini Park, one of the biggest and most …
27 January 2010My secondlast day in Thailand. I had booked a tour to the Tiger Temple about two hours drive from Bangkok. Part of the tour also was a stop at the River Kwai bridge, I only remembered there was a movie and some military background, but I was lacking the historical facts so I was simply …
26 January 2010My guide – the same nice girl from the previous day – and the driver picked me up at the hotel early in the morning. After an hour or so we had the first stop at a traditional Thai house where they showed all sorts of things like how to make sugar from coconuts, how …
25 January 2010I had a booking for a guided tour to the Grand Palace, but it was moved to the afternoon, so I decided to spend the morning checking out a nearby park. It was interesting to watch people there practising Tai-Chi or doing excercises – there were several public fitness devices placed in the park.
When I …
24 January 2010Over Christmas and New Years I spent about 2 weeks in Germany to visit family and friends after nearly two years in Australia. Flying from Australia to Germany takes about 20 hours in total (stop-over time not included – there are no direct connections) and I had some terrible memories from when I flew down …
10 December 2009Three weeks ago I went to Melbourne for the weekend to see Pearl Jam at the Etihad Stadium. It was a fantastic show in front of 45.000 people (according to the newspapers), with support acts Liam Finn and Ben Harper.
When I arrived in Melbourne I was greeted by an impressive heat, it made it almost …
3 November 2009Two weeks ago on Thursday we had a public holiday in Hobart. I decided to take Friday off and have a long weekend to do a short camping trip to Bruny Island, something I had planned for a long time already. To make it more interesting, I turned it into a bicycle trip. Unfortunately I …
