For my birthday, my better half took me to a surprise dinner where she didn’t have to look at me. This is our unforgettable dining in the dark review in Singapore. We went to NOX – Dine in the Dark, which in case you can’t tell from the name, is an experience where you dine…
We visited the world’s highest urban microbrewery in Singapore. It’s called LeVeL33, and yes, that is how you write it. My first thought when seeing the claim “world’s highest urban microbrewery” was, why do they need to specify “urban”? Is there a 50-floor tower in the middle of the Kansas prairie that is overall the…
Once more for emphasis: Singapore Airlines wants you to eat a meal on a parked plane. And just to avoid any confusion, yes, they do want you to pay for the experience, up to $600 for the Suites tier in fact. And they sold out. Immediately. There are two ways of looking at this. Firstly,…
At Comedy Travel Writing we love to celebrate the times when travel isn’t the dream experience you pretend it is on social media. It ain’t all picturesque sunsets and trips of a lifetime, folks. So here are 5 of the worst travel experiences. The Worst Part of… Sunsets Sunsets can be beautiful, calming, and the…
This is a sort-of-guide on how to eat seafood. But let me start by saying I don’t really eat seafood. I’d probably go so far as to say I don’t like it. Occasionally I’ll encounter a calamari, squint at it, maybe even lick it, then order a burger. But for my birthday, my loving girlfriend…
Let’s get right to it. Peruvian food is delicious. So I’m going to write about 5 of the best Peruvian food items you should check out. Many years ago I spent three months volunteering with crees in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. I’ve written a bit about it before – here and here, for example – but…
There are trolls in Norway. Real trolls, not those socially-stunted, hate-fuelled nuisances that lurk on messageboards and shout abuse at every rational, reasonable comment and make jokes at the expense of 13-year-old suicide tragedies. No, I’m talking real trolls, 13-foot monstrosities that live in the woods and eat goats. Now, I’ll admit I didn’t see…
There are a lot of all you can eat restaurants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known in Spanish as tenedor libre (“free fork”). And I’m not talking about the same all you can eat restaurants that you find in America, with extra-sized bottles of ketchup on the table and a soda cup big enough to drown…