Category: Asia

  • Singapore 2019 – Being a tourist

    Singapore 2019 – Being a tourist

    To avoid rushing out of Singapore after the race with everyone else we added a day to the hotel / GP package. After the appropriate amount of being lazy watching we set out to catch a bus to the train station. There were a couple of numbers we could catch and we jumped on the…

  • Singapore Grand Prix 2019

    Singapore Grand Prix 2019

    Quali and The Race Getting to the race track from Gardens by the Bay wasnโ€™t hard, but there was a bit of walking to the closest MRT station, through the Marina Bay Sands. We jumped on a train for a couple of stops, and then changed to another train. On the platform helpful people were…

  • Singapore – 2019 – Gardens by the Bay

    Singapore – 2019 – Gardens by the Bay

    The good thing about the Singapore Grand Prix being run in the evening is that there is no rush to get up and head out first thing in the morning. The most urgent thing before lunch is making sure you get to the hotel breakfast before they stop serving. It also means when you do…

  • Singapore Grand Prix – 2019

    Singapore Grand Prix – 2019

    Part I The last time I was in Singapore was just a few months ago, after my 6 weeks in Europe. I had planned to do a few things in Singapore on the way through back to Australia but I ended up spending most of the time in my hotel room after eating a dodgy…

  • Navigating the streets of Siem Reap

    Navigating the streets of Siem Reap

    Traffic in Cambodia is fairly hectic, there is little regard for road rules, but even compared with places like India the use of intersections with traffic lights is interesting.