24 Feb 2025 | Asia, Indonesia, Travel
Disclosure: there are affiliate links on this page. If you click on a link, find something you like and buy it, I may get a small amount of commission at no extra cost to you. Sometimes you might even get a discount! Beautiful Bali Bali is known for being a beautiful,...
27 Jan 2025 | Asia, Singapore, Travel
Disclosure: there are affiliate links on this page. If you click on a link, find something you like and buy it, I may get a small amount of commission at no extra cost to you. Sometimes you might even get a discount! Singapore Changi Airport is at the edge of the...
21 Apr 2020 | Asia, Personal, Travel
My last post about my pandemic adventures ended with my stay at a hotel near Bangkok airport, waiting for my flight back to Shenzhen (well, back to Guangzhou, as there weren’t any flights to Shenzhen and Guangzhou is the next closest city). The night before my...
25 Mar 2020 | Asia, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Teaching, Travel, United Arab Emirates
I haven’t been on social media much recently, simply because everything has been so crazy and I’ve been trying to get my head around a whole load of things. Now I’ve been in one place for a few days, here’s what’s been happening with me....
1 Feb 2020 | Asia, India, Travel
My friends and I arrived in Jodhpur about 5pm. As the hotel had its own restaurant and bar we decided to stay in for the evening and just have a few drinks and snacks there while playing games. It was a fun evening, which once more involved playing several rounds of...
30 Jan 2020 | Asia, India, Travel
A huge lake that seemed to stretch all the way to the sky greeted us upon our arrival in Sambhar. Only a two hour drive from Jaipur, Sambhar Heritage Resort has two locations – one in the town of Sambhar and one the other side of Sambhar Salt Lake, the largest...
28 Jan 2020 | Asia, India, Travel
We arrived in Jaipur around 10pm after a long day sightseeing in New Delhi followed by a long 5 hour drive. There was a bit of a mix up with the rooms but we (or rather, Toby) got it sorted and we eventually got to bed. We had breakfast at 8am and left at 9am to pick...
28 Jan 2020 | Asia, India, Travel
Travelling from Hong Kong to New Delhi, India, turned into a bit of a saga. To begin with our flight time was changed to an hour later. We boarded for the new flight time of 8.35am and then sat on the tarmac until finally taking off at 10.10am. Probably because of...
22 Dec 2017 | Asia, China, Shenzhen, Travel
Having lived in Shenzhen for more than 6 years now, all of these are still true! 1. If you want to save money, eat out every day. Eating out locally is cheap and delicious. There is a great variety to choose from: street food, different types of mien (noodles),...
