Oh well, there was supposed to be parts 4 (Pulau Ubin and Coney Island) and 5 (Little India, Punggol, Geylang), and maybe also 6 (misc), but due to some very unfortunate circumstances we lost all the photos, and the efforts to recover them have not proven successful, despite spending numerous […]
Park hopping Green corridor, the base of the former Malaysian (KTM) railroad that used to run from Tanjong Pagar railway station in South of Singapore to Woodland checkpoint in North, is one of the few wild natural spaces for trail running and bicycling in Singapore that is not manicured and […]
Seeing Taj Mahal live has been on my bucket list since the first time I really started listening to him play on the online radio I listen at work. He is a very avid tourer, but never before has he been this close to us. When I found out that […]
Old neighborhoods The first item in our agenda was to visit the neighborshoods where we used to live and work, both of which have undergone quite a few changes. This is the Pasir Panjang village (in 2012) as we remember it when most of the businesses had already closed because […]
When we two and a half years ago left Singapore for France, we hardly thought of returning. After having closed the credit cards and claimed the credit points we had accumulated during our 5-year tenure on the tiny island we ended up having quite a few Singapore Airlines miles. When […]
We had friends visiting from the US this weekend. Today it was one of the first real Summer days here in Grenoble, and what did we do? We took these guys above 2000 meters to show them Winter (when it actually just unseasonally snowed in their home state). This is […]
We have spent a great deal of this winter planning our bathroom and kitchen renovations, visiting shops to choose materials, lighting, and furniture. And still we are not anywhere near done. Because of that we have not had any nice winter hikes or skiing trips this year. However, right after […]
Our original plan for the Ascension holiday weekend was to visit Annecy, which we have wanted to do for some time (since winter). Then we checked the weather forecast; it promised mostly rainy and chilly weather around Annecy and Grenoble. Another look at the weather map told us to go […]
We are in Joensuu, North Karelia (Finland) for the biathlon world championships. So far the weather has been miserable. And the next few days were not any better. Helsinki was all about drizzle and sleet, and a freezing wind. On march 7th we took the train to Joensuu. This is […]