Tag: travel

  • 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…

  • Oulu – A winter wonderland

    Oulu – A winter wonderland

    Oulu, I still have no idea how to pronounce it, is an interesting place. A colleague at work who had spent some time in Finland would keep correcting me. “Oulu?”“Ouluโ€“Oulu?โ€“Ouluโ€ The easiest way to get around Finland in winter is to fly. Unlike more southern airports, Finnish airports donโ€™t close if there is snow, like…

  • One, Big China

    One, Big China

    One, big China. 1.4 billion people is a lot of people, but the whole scale of China is different and while the cities are huge, and there are people everywhere, it never felt like there were 1.4 billion people competing for space.

  • Historic, since 1982

    Historic, since 1982

    China is old. It’s been around for a while, but there is a lot of stuff that didn’t seem that old at all.

  • Getting Around China

    Getting Around China

    The level of electrification of transport in Beijing was well beyond what I had expected. Electric vehicles were everywhere.