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Poleaxed Couchsurfers say hello by walking. So I step off the 6am Stansted Shuffle in Krakov and go exploring with Anna - a flooded ex-quarry, a medieval fair on Krakus mound, ...

The Far End Crouch End, London "Hide!" The guide, the voice who's been in my ear all the way from the clock tower, sounds like she means it. Rock and roll! Suddenly I kn...

Keeper Every decision to succeed at something is a decision to fail at something else. So by failing to train, by diverting resources to work and Fire Hazard and travel, ...

Game On "No! NO!" There's real panic in my voice. The black-cloaked ghoul has popped up from around the corner of the tower block. He's much too close, running much too fas...

Gator Bites As always, these are the stories that I didn't tell: I've been on an airboat, on dead-flat swamp as a lightning storm closed in, pulling a fast 180 to wait on the d...

Summer Storm BOOM. The thunder is muffled, but I instantly realise what's going on. Deep inside the mall, I'd never seen the storm developing, but now that it's in full swing, e...

On The Road "Drive." I'd hoped that the GPS I'm paying $11/day for would be more useful. Instead it's talking like a hijacker while I try to wrap my head around being on the wr...

The New World "It's so.. American." It's a useless, trite response, but my drinking buddies understand. The country that exports most of the western world's media, exports an exh...

America! Fuck yeah! Three. Two. One. They don't need to say "zero". By then nobody's listening. We're staring at the magnesium-bright flare just two miles across the bay, watching the ...

Freedom Ain't Free[dom] "You've been to Vietnam?" Oh, shit. He _does_ look about the right age, the right build. But really? What are the chances? "Yes." They try to be friendly, g...

Doubt We lurch again and this time the screams are real panic, not roller-coaster excitement. At least from some of the passengers on the 737; the mad girl on my right is sh...

Now Or Never It was a simple mission: go to Sheffield and visit Lyn's great uncle Frank. We started planning, checking fares on megabus.com. We looked forward to completing it and ...

Report: Lantau 2: Blackout I'm trying to force myself back to sleep. I often sleep poorly when travelling, even in a comfortable room; it's something about overstimulation, or possibly overdrink...

Report: Lantau Day one of our wedding present directs us to Lantau, a large island to the west of the Kowloon peninsula where we're staying. A hotel has been booked for us at Silve...

Well, That Was Nice Several people have told me that my book turns them off travelling. I've always maintained that I travel for "experiences, not necessarily good ones", because trauma i...

Fear Fighters The first person we ask for directions tells us to turn back. So does the second; he's Thai, and he's frankly confused that we'd want to walk to Hat Yuan when, for a h...

Jumping In So. The waves are going to either tip us over or smash us into the rocks. We're not visible from the shore, and nobody knows we're here. We're not wearing lifejackets....

Bargaining With Buddha The fat guy smirks at me from behind the narrow counter. "Eternal happiness? Yeah, I can get you dat. No problem." Neon light spills in through the barred windo...

Night of Mayhem I've warned her that we'll have only minutes, and that she should choose her final words to us carefully. She looks into my eyes and says "You owe me a night of mayhem...

Report: champagne Left casually in the luggage trunk, this was an artifact. To complete the circle, we needed to drink it together at the start of the honeymoon. But after the weddin...

Report: baht Our papier-mache mailbox was stuffed with inspiration, resources, and forgiveness. We have a duty to use them, if not wisely, then at least in an entertaining fashi...

Hard Landing We're coming in too fast. The thunderstorms are over, but the air around Sydney airport is still turbulent, and we're bounced around as we head for the runway. We hit ...

No Time To Say Too much happened too quickly, and the articles withered on the vine. Here are the husks: * The roof of an abandoned mental hospital at midnight. Barbed-wire fence...

One Six Eight You don't have to die for your life to flash before your eyes. At the end of every trip it runs backwards in my memory, my mind returning home at the same time as my b...

London Day I'm up before dawn, standing stunned in the dark room and trying to remember where my trousers are. Thirty minutes to get suited and booted; I have a breakfast date. ...

Come Together On my way to the rendezvous I check my gear. I've got running shoes, spare batteries, compass, GPS, maps, network access, spyglass, notebook, tube card, gloves. I'm pu...

Stone Cold I wake reluctantly, with a throbbing headache and a bad taste in my mouth. The light hurts. Good: we've established that it's not because of alcohol. I just don't l...

Prince of Persia We walk briskly down the narrow alley, looking back for the dark-coated Arab who's.. well, okay, chasing us. It's a strangely civilised pursuit and, unlike in Viet...

Dodging the Bullet "It's going to explode." The airport security guard doesn't blink. I pretend I didn't hear. After a long moment, so does she, and returns the clothes bag to the bac...

Secret Life I am not special. The photos from Antic Banquet make it look like a cross between a hippie festival and a commune - right down to fisherman's pants, hula hoops, and...

Fourth Wall I'm hanging on her every word. Then she steps off the stage. And, oh god, she's explainin...

Badlands I've stood at two thousand feet and watched the mist roll in so fast that I reached nervously for my radio. I've hiked half a kilometer of bog in the pouring rain t...

Phantomysteria They have me before the show even starts. The college quad is imposing, backlit through the drizzle, while isolation-suited actors shovel ash into the courtyard ahead ...

Charlie Victor Romeo Suck it up. We're going down. I've always found the rumble of the jet engines comforting, but not no...

Taking Out The Trash It ends the way it began, an inch of cheap scotch and the long silent walk back to the tent. Adventuring alone is a skill, and I'm rusty. It's not unusual; walking...

When The Zombies Come If you love an idea, let it go. Forget about it. If it comes back, it's worth doing. I have so, _so_ many projects that I now apply this simple, brutal test to a...

I'm A Fire Engine The swarthy man lumbers up the concrete staircase, the mob I'm part of only a few steps behind. He reaches the top and turns, a hand outstretched in defiance, out of b...

Lost Losing a notebook is like losing part of my brain. I defer writes, knowing that I've captured the important ideas somewhere - a very GTD philosophy. Now I don't even k...

Long Weekend The first morning goes as the first morning always does. Up at four, into the taxi at four-twenty. I'm so tightly packed that I don't have loose change for a tip, thou...

Making Tracks _Near Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire_ "Fire." In the training session my voice sounded forced, and almost theatrical. Now, with the hatches down, it's clipped...

The Things I Never Told You It's a narrow window. Less than a couple of days after an event I don't have enough perspective to write about it. More than a week and, without notes, I can't remembe...

We Don't Stop Deep inside the Nam Ha National Protected Area, Lyn and I are designing web applications. On our first trip, I'd have been deeply traumatised by this. Now I regard ...

It Takes A Village The boatman's not stupid. Muong Ngoi's reachable only by boat, but most people stay only a night or two, so we can leave the bike here in Nong Khiaw and come back for ...

Not Too Late Giving alms in Luang Prabang tomorrow? ---------- This is the information I wish I'd found quickly: * Be sure that you want to do this, and that you can do it r...

The Deep End I hit the kill switch, and the engine shudders to a halt at the same time I do. I'm intact but _shattered_. The trip looked easy enough on paper, but the bike's too...

Highway 13 "Help!" I know they won't understand, but I'm running out of options. The bike's stopped in the middle of the road, leaning hard to the left. I can stop it going ov...

Bits of Bone Our fellow-travellers on the Vietnamese tour boat, cruising gently down the Mekong, are stunned when I tell them that I hated Cambodia. While I'd rather continue lying...

Poisoned Khmer food is amazing. From the beef curry known as 'luclac' to the gentle 'fish amok' to the renditions of Western food that equal London's best, it's an experience t...

Stonewalker The first thing we see at Beng Melea temple, two hours out of Siem Reap, is a sign announcing the successful clearing of the surrounding minefield. There's a "compl...

One From Three Thirty Girls, guns, ganja. Phnom Penh still has some of the lawness 'frontier city' character which dominated it ten years ago. I'm here; I should get involved. This is th...

Show And Tell _This_ is why we ride the local bus. True, we did it by accident; if you don't specify "super VIP luxury" when you buy the ticket, you'll default to an ordinary lon...

Crossing The Line I'm not used to negotiating with people in uniform. They're triple-teaming us, a stern schoolteacher type looking over her thin-rimmed glasses and speaking good E...

The Absence Of Fear I see a girl perched on the edge of a balcony high above the street, relaxing, and suddenly it all clicks. Nobody here has any fear left. Everything bad that can ha...

What The Hell Happened Here? It used to be nice here. Here's what happened. 1864: Cambodia is conquered by France. 1953: France is distracted by unrest in Vietnam, so King Sihanouk declares...

Cambodian U-Turn There's a thick concrete median to prevent u-turns, but that's no problem. We simply turn in place. Reality check. With Lyn, I'm on the back of a small scooter in P...

Mixed Fruits Hat Sai Khao, Ko Chang, Thailand I've finally cracked Thai pronunciation. The tones they use don't match the ones in the phrasebook. But I can hear them now, and I ...

The Mind-Killer I'm sick with fear. My hands are locked onto the grips so tightly that, afterwards, I'm unable to straighten them. The wind on my bare, vulnerable skull is a hideous f...

Gamed "Next time I'm bringing Travel Guess Who" I should've stuck with pushing pawns around. But she's left her King exposed, and intellectual integrity demands that I do...

Standing Room Only This isn't me. This is madness. We'd seen this coming and headed for the front of the arriving ferry early, but we're less willing to shove our way through than the...

Dropping Out The eye candy isn't up to much: the crowd of overweight retirees mean that Hat Sai Khao is strictly BYO. They mostly lie inert, many with sunburn patterns such as I-us...

Packing For Heat My bag weighs less than I do, which is a nice change. In fact, I can lift it with the little finger of my left hand. I cannot shake the feeling that I've forgotten ...

Optimise The fat man's never heard of Angkor Wat. As we listen in, standing next to him at the scale model inside the Golden Palace, his personal guide tells him that he can go...

Coin Circle The golden face peers at me from between the pillars. At fifty metres long, I can't even see all of Thailand's biggest Buddha at once. I'm distracted by a continu...

Shoe Leather The GPS saves us from becoming hopelessly lost, but it can't save us from the five kilometer walk to the nearest Skytrain station. Taxi prices are fixed, for people wh...

Forest of Spires The Grand Palace made me glad I've been to Ayuthera. It's strange that a ruined temple can be more interesting than a new one; the stark piles of bricks said nothing m...

FLR: "iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Keyboard", by "Think Outside" "Before you buy it, find out if I'm sorry that I did" Front Line Reviews are the opposite of "unboxing". You've read the spec sheet already. These reviews will tell...

Cynic I still basically trust people, but my last trip down here has made me automatically suspicious of young men who stand too close, speak too softly, and are too friendl...

Miracle Device Things I have actually done with my phone: * Carried it through one of the largest street markets in the world, in my shorts pocket, without worrying about it. *...

Plenty For Me The only way now is down. I first realized this reading We Need To Talk About Kevin. The protagonists have their lives _together_. The only news they can receive is...

Secret Window Everybody who writes about the early morning describes it as 'different', 'surreal', or even 'alien'. They're right. But ev...

Consumer Confidence We couldn't do it. Tasked to spend £100 in the UK's greatest department store, we retreated two hours later with £70 still to our names. Harrods gift cards really mess...

Technical White _Carbisdale Castle, Scotland_ It's faster to walk across the fields to the main road than to wait for the bus to take the long way, so on Christmas morning, that's ...

Bits and Pieces Even Lyn's not game for real haggis, and she's eaten deep-friend insects. But we tried "vegetarian haggis" (same spices, hold the offal) at the World's End, where Laph...

Shopping _The Royal Mile, Edinburgh_ They don't call it "scotch" here; they just call it "whisky". Of _course_ it's Scottish. Lyn's captivated by the cute dog in the wind...

London To Edinburgh _London To Edinburgh_ Things only get worse. We have to take a rail replacement bus over much of the route. No one really knows where we're going. Half the group mi...

Removed And Destroyed _King's Cross_ Train travel is an incredible luxury compared to the Stansted Shuffle, but we still feel the bite of the security theatre precaution...

Christmas Party I'm in a full suit, wearing the silly Christmas hat I picked up in Scotland. Apart from Lyn, I don't recognise anyone here, but my "department head" obviously recognis...

Into The Dark In the cold, still air the sound is penetrating. _Tick_ - _tick_ _tick_. The ice is breaking. I look on, not so much in horror as in careful preparation. Depth of t...

Merciless I'm still counting up the fifty pounds when the big guy with the scar reaches into his bag, removes a pistol, and racks the slide. In fact, the bag's full of them, and...

I Can't Talk To Czech Girls The hiss of the beer tap is the first sign of trouble. I hadn't ordered any beer; arriving for lunch, I'd said "two people", as an oversimplification of "Good afternoo...

Show Of Force We're already frazzled when we leave Kunta Hora. The Sedlec Ossuary - "bone church" - is deeply creepy. The silver mines tour was more pedestrian, although the large t...

The Other Side Every voice I can hear is Australian or English; even the staff are expats. The barman's delighted when I order Czech liquor, because no one else ever does. In the eve...

ESP Gripping the tree trunk, I can see it clearly: dead straight, pale grey, about a foot wide. The guide listens to my description with good humour, but he can't see it, ...

Re-Entry There is no turnover, because I never turned away. I guess I knew that this trip was never about relaxation. We never got the cocktails on the beach. The rich diet ...

Towed Away I'm having a blast skimming across the surface of the water when my speed abruptly drops from 30 km/h to zero. The rope has gone slack. Meanwhile, my board is sinking ...

Steel Soldiers It's way out of town. Even when trying to talk Lyn into accompanying me to the statue park, I'm forced to refer to it as "a bit of a mission". But it's too cold for...

Hot Hungarian There is no food service on eastern european trains. Not even the twelve-hour ones. Short of time because of a tram that never came, we skipped breakfast and did 24 ho...

Wallflower I've been to parties like this before. We've been spectacularly successful at meeting the locals through couchsurfing. Besides showing us interesting parts of town...

Bled Rock I release the hold and step back from the rock to consider my options. My Australian instincts are overkill here in Slovenia, but bright red with black dots is "poi...

Keep Off The Grass I am acutely aware that this is the first unpaved surface I've walked on in Bosnia. I move slowly, almost silently - as if a light step makes a difference - and...

White Water Whitewater rafting is for sissies. Lying in the icy water of the Soca River with nothing to protect me but a helmet and an oversize kickboard, I felt vulnerable, an...

Just Run "You don't have to jump. Just run!" The guide is trying to reassure me, but it's not the jumping I'm worried about. It's not the falling, either. The water at th...

Leftovers An ipod won't work if it's left in the sun. I had to hose mine down with water to get it back under control, since with no off switch, it would have run its battery to...

Busted Lyn's shocked, but I've been expecting this since day one. Of course, it's still only day two. Like in Hvar, the legitimate campsite in Korchula is a punishing 3km ...

Feet-first Diving, like opening champagne or changing a wheel, is one of those skills that you have to have, or sooner or later you're going to get burned. Still, in most case...

Yellow Light I'm a disciple of science. I know the universe is in full compliance with natural laws. But, exploring Hvar's steep, yellow-lit old town, I was a little uneasy to stum...

Black Ops "Get down and stay down!" The figure on the balcony is silhouetted by the house lights. He's looking directly at us. A shorter shape joins him: great, they've got a...

Nightmare I never thought I'd wish for more pollution. Snorkeling at Tioman Island last year, I floated over a basketball-sized black sphere of horror, thick six-inch spines ...

Meltdown Canyoning's not the only dangerously stupid thing we've done recently. Fresh off the ferry at Hvar with a shiny new tent and a sense of adventure, we opt to hire mount...

Running Commentary On the bus to Zadar I finished reading We Need To Talk About Kevin. It's a horrible, horribl...

Cashed Up I hate coins. I'm no ninja, but I like to move like one. The louder the nasal-voiced, roller-bag-toting Americans around me, the quieter I am. In cathedrals I prac...

Write On With the destruction of two cameras in a week (stolen and dropped), I'll stick with the written word. Florence has two train stations. Still smarting from my trip t...

Full Charge There are no power points in a tent. With five devices to charge and little free time, I scavenge power from usb ports in the internet cafe, shaver points in the bathr...

Roll On Out The same loudmouthed, empty-headed twits are on the train to Ljubljana with us. It ain't undiscovered no more. These guys, and the giggling girls opposite them, speak ...

Firenze It's not a bad bike. The paint is new, the brakes work, and somebody obviously cares about it. It's a badly *designed* bike. Step-through, solid steel, no gears, no...

Stand Up I'm moving at a dead run, breathing in tight bursts, the few pedestrians who are still around at this hour glancing back apprehensively as I approach them. I'm in ...

Wrong Turn I can't afford to draw blood, this time. But I haven't got long. I pull the razor quickly across my soapy skull, feeling for renegade hairs with my other hand. I'm exh...

Kool Aid I bought an iPod. It came with a bottle of Kool Aid. I bought it despite the fact th...

Long Morning Six years ago, I swore I'd never do this again. Technically I still haven't. The early start leaves my brain ringing with unpleasant echoes, like a nightmare DJ....

Front and Center The box office looks baffled when I ask for "the line", but they send me downstairs to the main doors. There's no one there. That's hardly surprising. I bailed...

High Definition Flying low over Sandefjord, a hundred kilometers south of Oslo, I'm initially confused by shiny squares that are scattered over the landscape. As we descend further, I...

Riding the Rails Europe's long-distance trains are so easy that you can catch one by accident. Lyn's migraine has us bailing out of Canal St Martin on a sunny Sunday afternoon and, ...

Crocodile Drift It's cold. The smell of the pine trees is overpowering. I'm alone in the forest, surrounded by a blue-white mist, checking each tree for movement, because I don't know...

Hung Up To Dry It is impossible to buy a new phone. I do not wish to rent a phone. I wish to buy one. I require the ability to reach Lyn at any time at which she wishes to be ...

Combine Wall There are no crowds of banner-waving citizens at Parliament Square. There's only Brian Haw, a handful of loyal supporters, a couple of placards and a small cluster of ...

Same Same At the top of Primrose Hill, I'm startled to see the London Eye on the horizon. I'd forgotten that I was here. I still get up early, hunched over the laptop answeri...

Time In Transit Santiago is a two-hour flight from London. It does not follow that Santiago is two hours from London. It breaks down like this: 0:00: Starting our run, we're on foo...

Santiago Santiago _Santiago De Compostela, Spain_ The Cathedral dominated the experience. Every time I stepped into the Old Town I got lost, unable to find anything else. Every time...

Entiendo Un Poco Each time I start to learn another language - now three in four months - I worry that I'll end up so confused that I won't be able to speak anything. It doesn't see...

[44] Circular Dependency
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to obtain.. *a library card*.

Over And Out Outside, it's sixty-five degrees below zero. The seat-back screen tells me that we're thirty thousand feet above Omsk, Russian Federation, and Lyn comments that it's p...

Too Much I can't write when too little is happening. For the last couple of weeks I've had the opposite problem. There's too much to roll into a neat little package, but her...

Flashbang Turn your fucking flash off. Yes, I know you "thought it was off". No, it's not. That's why there's a little lightning bolt on your screen. If you are too stupi...

Pile Of Bricks _Ayuthera_ Ayuthera is remarkably large for a town of 80,000 people. Couple this with the brutal heat and lack of shade, and walking ceases to be an option. Instead...

Big Cat _Kanchanabury_ You can get a tourist minibus straight to the Tiger Temple. This is both good and bad, for the usual reasons. You can't complain about the Getaway...

Language Difficulties _Ayuthera_ Even Thais have trouble maneouvring in the night markets. A young Thai man fails to look behind him before stepping out and clobbers me thoroughly. He...

Swim Or Die _Erawan Falls_ Poised on a submerged rock, I consider the lunge that will take me through the falls and up onto a ledge behind them. I know I can make it. The mo...

The Oven And The Fridge There's no middle ground. You can get a hot room with a freezing shower for 250 baht. If you want it the other way around, it'll cost you twice as much. Fan room...

Hellfire and Darkness Hellfire Pass is a very long way from Kanchanabury. We'd already ridden to Erawan national park, which is merely a "long way" from Kanchanabury. When we hired the 1...

Off The Wagon _Bangkok_ It's my second day in Bangkok, and I've been to the Pantip Plaza IT Mall twice. I'm now sporting a Palm TX handheld and four gig of assorted non-volatile ...

Not To Scale When Lonely Planet tells you to buy a map, buy a map. Do not attempt to navigate using their map. Do not attempt to navigate using a map you got at the train st...

The Fuzz _Nakhon Si Thammarat_ We deserved it, really. Two months of lax security and no thefts had made us complacent. Under the pillow is not really a good place to hide y...

A Little Bit Live Why does this hurt? I'm leaning over the machine, my knee brushing the chassis, plugging in a USB cable. My knee hurts. I glance down. No bruises. Nothing sharp....

Rock Bottom _Hat Rai Lei East, Thailand_ Fifteen metres up, I undo the knot that attaches the climbing rope to my harness. The view across the bay would be amazing if I was ...

Trangquilised _Trang, Thailand_ They have real coffee. And sandwiches. The taxis ignore you until you want one. The beer is cheaper than in Australia. There are footpaths. I t...

Uppers and Downers _Pantai Cenang, Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia_ When it's good, it's very good. When it goes bad, it goes bad very fast. We ride 20km, walk half a kilometre, and wade ...

Fast Idle _Pantai Cenang, Langkawi_ "It's self-revving," my fiancee comments. The motorbike - one of the largest on the island - is getting more than enough revs from her...

Lights Out _Georgetown, Penang_ No one is surprised when the lights go off. The owner of the East Xiamen restaurant uses his mobile - the universal emergency light of the 21st c...

Up And At 'Em _Georgetown, Penang_ The smart way to do Penang Hill is to catch the mini train to the top, then hike the jungle trails back down to the botanic gardens. Still smar...

The Other Half _Grand Plaza Parkroyal, Batu Ferringhi_ The cocktails are delicious, the music is live, and the surroundings are beautiful. But there's no snakes. And that's rea...

Airborne _Batu Ferringhi, Penang_ 'Hold your arms in the air', the big guy says, 'and run towards the water.' 'Run fast', adds the timid voice in my head, 'or the harness...

[21] Backup Plan _Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands_ Over breakfast, I overheard a young backpacker explaining to a couple of girls how he'd been lost in the jungle for most of the prev...

Extended Downtime _28 Oct, Tanah Rata_ With the loss of my notebook to yesterday's downpour, and nothing to do in my present state except read and write, I'm forced to revisit some e...

Jungle Gym _27 Oct, Tanah Rata_ There are many ways to deal with a fever. Bed rest, paracetamol, and lots of water are all good choices. A five-hour jungle hike in the pouring...

Brass Monkey _26 Oct, Tanah Rata_ After five hours on a bus, we've reached Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands. This path isn't just beaten, but leveled, steamrollered and b...

Loadout _KL_ Nearly a month in, I've found a new routine. The first thing's always my glasses, which hang on the back of the bed frame behind my head. Underwear, shirt, ...

A Simple Plan _Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia_ Deepavali. KL is polluted, noisy, crowded, and not at all like the beautiful beach I'd rather be on. We're woken by bells at 7:30am every m...

Melaka You know you're adventuring too fast when you spend over an hour at a netcafe, and you still have an entire page of notes left. In shortform: There's a weird ecolog...

Mixed bag There are lots of things in my notebook and no obvious common thread that would let me wrap them up into a neat little entry. So here are the working notes, to be pack...

Chin-Ups On The Altar Of Progress KL's Lake Gardens are pretty but mazelike. They contain twisty roads, a very expensive bird park (containing a restaurant), and Nothing Else To Eat. Anywhere. E...

The Hell Out of Melaka Woke with the intention of going to Afamosa Water Park. Language difficulties once again precluded a normal breakfast. I've noticed that here, you order your food and ...

In Soviet Malaysia... *...taxi hail YOU!* It's like a reflex. Every time a foreigner walks past, the taxi drivers say "Yes Taxi?", "Taxi?", or sometimes, more intimidatingly, "*TAXI!*". So...

Piscine Molitor Patel I'm sitting at the back of rescue boat three. We're stranded on a sandbar. To the sides I can see rescue boats one and two, on the same sandbar. Behind us ...

Mersing _Mersing, Johor Province, Malaysia_ We stood on the docks at Mersing, listing to the distant call to prayer as the everpresent haze continued to darken. The distant...

A Far Cry from Mersing The Bluewater 4* is an oversized speedboat that does 55km/h and is a little on the bouncy side. In the interests of accuracy, the sign at the front should read "-life ...

ABC *ABC - Kampung Air Batang* _Kampung Air Batang, or "ABC" as the locals call it, Tioman Island._ The five metres between me and the pontoon is more fish than water....

Step 8 How to catch a bus from Singapore to Johor Bahru in nine easy steps: 1. Go to the Queen St bus station. 2. Get on the Johor bus. 3. Get off at the checkpoint. 4....

Stopping all stations It took me a long time to realise that when you reach the end of the MRT line, you've reached the end of the country. We did that twice yesterday. At one end is Changi...

The hard road _Was on a path to nowhere, the harder the road,_ _The more broken baggage we carry the larger the load_ The internet access at the new hostel's just as hopeless, b...