Travelling nowadays has become synonymous with flying – heading to the airport, taking a plane ride somewhere, getting your passport stamped… but Graham Hughes has proved otherwise by being the first guy in the Guiness Book of Records to visit 201 countries. What’s amazing is not just that he’s crossed 201 borders, but that he… More
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Experimental Travel with Lonely Planet
Well I’m a big fan of alternative travelling as you can see with the Anywhere Travel Guide (and the Anywhere Travel Guiding series 2011, yikes I hope I can finish by year end as originally planned!) I stumbled upon the Lonely Planet’s guide to Experimental Travel, and like the ATG, it has various ‘experiments‘ for… More
Of Endless Sand and Aircon Appreciation
The last trip where it was just me and my dad was back in 2007, where after I graduated, I would no longer be entitled to the travel perks I enjoyed from his company. Thus I made up my mind to travel as much as I could that year, which included the official Taiwan grad… More
Of Crushed Pigs and Crossing Bridges
Seoul-vancouver was the first trip where it was just me and him – I can’t recall why it was just me following him up on this flight? Probably because it was one of his decent long ones, and the rest of my family couldn’t make it, but it was just me and my dad, who… More
In Memoriam
(Me and Dad in Hokkaido, 2010) So it’s been awhile since i’ve posted or updated… Its been the longest 2 weeks of my life as my father suffered a massive stroke and passed away. For those who knew my dad, he was a pilot, and it was his frequent flying and taking me around the… More
Two Girls, Take Flight, Many Adventures!
Have you ever daydreamed about just throwing work aside, and grabbing your suitcase and just going on a trip somewhere? I know I do so, all the time. So while fielding emails and checking artworks at work, I heard a radio interview about 2 Singaporean girls, packing their bags and jetting off for a 9… More
TOT feature on Sarah's Loft!
Hey everyone, The Occasional Traveller is featured as a guest blogger at Sarah’s Loft! Sarah’s a lovely fellow Singaporean with a great eye for photography and design – I love all these out of the way places that she manages to discover right here in little Singapore. Anyway do check out her little space, and… More
A Red Eye flight with Christoph Niemann
I love Christoph Niemann’s Abstract City blog. Unlike most blogs, like my own, which are mostly wordswordswords or photographs, the man is a genius at visual art, and occasionally updates his New York Times blog with really intriguing posts, each presented in a very different visual method or illustration. This time around he kept it… More