Excerpt from my Albanian travel journal notebook: Mon 20/2 klo 13.25 Cold so won’t write for long, but just to share magical moments w/ you. Sat alone @ top of Mount Something, maybe begins with a Q (pronounced “ch”), maybe not. I LOVE THIS. Views are PHENOMENAL. Just had a nutritious lunch of yesterday’s peanut […]
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Cable Cars of the Dolomites
Disclaimer again: This is blog entry 3/3 from our Dolomites trip in June 2022. Better late than never tho innit! I love cable cars. Nikki doesn’t. Or at least didn’t. She has quite a fear of heights and really did not promise to join me in any cable car escapades during our trip to the […]
The sun which set beyond the Kok-Tobe cable cars
What to do when first arriving in a new town? Go see the highest view you can find. This can be via a tower, via a tram up a mountain or, traditionally in the Story of My Life, via a cable car. One of the attractions of Almaty in the first place was the cable car […]
The Nams of Seoul: Namsan Tower and Namdaemun Market
Seoul has a tower. Seoul Tower, or Namsan Tower, is a 238m-high building, built in 1980, which marks the highest point of Seoul. Seoul also has a cable car that goes up to the tower. So, I guess it comes as no surprise that on my second day in Seoul, I decided to explore the […]
Comprehending untamed backsides of Taipei zoo
Why did Tigger put his head down the toilet? He was looking for Pooh. My go-to joke, and, don’t worry, profoundly appropriate for today’s topic. Taipei zoo is like a large, ecologically aware five-year-old. This in relation to the percentage of time spent discussing what you produce in the WC / bathroom / toilet / […]
The joyful cable cars of Oriental Venice
Before I begin, please forgive me. The title is misleading. The joyful cable cars are not actually in the Oriental Venice, but I have been sat here for way too long trying to think of a title for this blog post (I eventually decided against my dad’s suggestion of ‘Ngong Ping Pong Kong‘). The joyful […]
24h in Vibrant Singapore
HELLO MY DEARESTS, So now let’s welcome the long ambitious mission of attempting to record my three-week Asia trip I just came back from. After finishing work in Vietnam last month, I embarked on a celebratory solo-trip to Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. And here is the first stop… SINGAPORE. I hadn’t […]
Roadtrippin’ Langkawi
Langkawi is an archipelago of 104 islands right at the north of Malaysia, near the Thai border. (I only now found out it is officially 104 and not one island, but we spent most of the time on the mainlandy island.) It means island of the reddish-brown eagle and it was traditionally thought to be […]
Day 17: Schilthorn – Up to nearly 3km!
Today was the day we were originally supposed to do the Jungfrau. I got inspired by it by seeing a picture from that region on one of my fb friends’ wall, and it seemed a good starting point for looking into pretty scenic trains in Switzerland. The Jungfrau is called the “top of Europe”, the […]