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The depth of my knowledge about Singapore up until about a week ago was gathered from the news in the 1990′s, and from reading Paul Theroux books. I knew that the entire structure and inner workings of the city state were conceived by one person, a sort of Wizard of Oz deciding what would fly and what wouldn’t. I knew…
We had been in touch with a German couple, Sascha and Kerstin since we got into Malaysia. While we were in Singapore, we got a message from them that they were going to be heading to Indonesia on Wednesday. For bikers, shipping to Indonesia was posing a huge problem. Shipping in the first place is a pain in the ass…the…
Finally we got ourselves to snap out of it and head to Taman Negara. We wanted to be in Singapore for the weekend to visit one of Nick’s school buddies and other friends. Taman Negara is a national park full of 130 million year old rainforest separated by the main town of Kuala Tahan by a muddy brown river. When…
s’ Ochtends stappen we in Maleisie de auto met een raar gevoel, vandaag rijden we onze laatste etappe. Twaalf maanden eerder stonden we nog bij de Landrover dealer om onze Landy op te halen, de eerste kilometers van ons avontuur en nu dus de laatste. We rijden weg en praten over wat we allemaal hebben meegemaakt. De hele ombouw van…
(James) All too quickly our time in Australia had come to an end. We’d been busy throughout our stay but our list of jobs – top of which had been to get the blog up to date – was now even longer than before. We said a sad goodbye to Sal and Meg and then drove down to Melbourne airport…