Mona Vale & The Blue Mountains

Mona Vale... The next stop on our beach ‘hitlist’ of Sydney was Mona Vale, roughly a 40-minute bus ride from where we were staying, in Gordon. We weren’t too sure exactly what to expect of Mona Vale but I had in mind at least that it would be quite a large town, terminating literally onto a beachfront. Instead, the bus dropped us off just by a shopping centre and the walk, past an industrial estate and up past some houses, was surprisingly... Read More

Goodbye Perth & The Night of Free TV

NIghttime in Perth... When we finally returned from Fremantle, it was high time for our daily pilgrimage to the local Woolworths to get some dinner – and, as it turned out, in the meantime Perth had really come alive with a food market taking centre stage, with various different offerings available and the street lit up beautifully. We wandered along through the street market for as long as we could – without making it too obvious, we hoped, that... Read More

Singapore – The Fine City, Part II

The fine beaches of Sentosa... Our trip to Sentosa contained all the usual qualities I was coming to expect of Singapore taxi drivers – a comfortable car, metered fare and a guy who actually seemed to be genuinely taking the quickest way down there. Sentosa Island itself meanwhile was much bigger than I’d expected it would be and as we drove up (and paid a $5 admission fee to just drive onto the island, which I considered to be a load of rubbish)... Read More

Singapore – The Fine City

The clean streets of Sing... Somewhere I’ve been meaning to go for quite a few years, but never managed to get round to, was Singapore. I had planned to go there during my excursion in 2009, but unfortunately the way things worked out, that never happened. Likewise, despite all my time in Malaysia, Singapore’s northerly neighbour, I hadn’t yet managed to make so much as a single day visit, in spite of the close proximity of the two countries... Read More