Let’s do something fun. Let’s compare the New York City and Singapore metro/subway systems and declare a winner. (It will be fun, I swear.) So, New York City or Singapore? 1. Number of people killed – New York City or Singapore? Somebody told me in Singapore that after a number of fatalities from people stepping onto the…
When in South Korea, we went on a tour of the DMZ between South and North Korea. Here’s what happened. “We will go soon into tunner,” she said. “When you go to inside tunner, make sure to listen instructions carefully, other you will have problem. You wear heavy hat for banging. You have to be safety in the tunner…
Today I’m going to talk about how to use buses in Japan. It might not sound like it, but it’s going to be a hoot. Unless your name is Sir Nicolas Double-Barreled Pompington you’ve probably used a bus at least once or twice in your life. You probably think that the bus pulls up to…
When we were in Tokyo, we took five hours’ worth of trains and buses and hikes to see snow monkeys in Nagano. To be more specific, we were at Jigokudani Monkey Park, where we spent about three hours looking at animals, before taking five hours’ worth of hikes and buses and trains back to Tokyo….
This is a post about a wild experience in a capsule hotel in Tokyo. I spent a night in a Tokyo capsule hotel room that was orders of magnitude smaller than your average prison cell. It also involved me seeing more Japanese penis than I would have liked. I was not coerced into this. I…
This is an account of a cockfight in Manila, in the Philippines. Before I start, a trigger warning: cockfights in Manila are not for the faint of heart. Animals get seriously hurt and killed and I absolutely do not condone the sport. And giving money to see them makes me feel guilty, but it’s also…
My guide for the day stopped the motorbike at the side of this muddy, rural road somewhere in east Vietnam and peed against a post next to an overgrown war memorial. “47 villagers were shot here when the Americans came,” he said, to disguise the crackling of warm liquid on leaves. “They slaughtered everyone in…
Vietnam has a lot of riches to see and explore. Here’s what to expect on an overnight tour of Ha Long Bay in the north of the country. Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam is one of the new 7 Natural Wonders of the World. I did a one-night, two-day tour, spending the night on…
This is my experience riding a Vietnam sleeper train from Hanoi to Da Nang. In short: train bad, people good, especially Welsh people. Any traveller will say that the best part of travel is the meeting of awesome people. They’ll either tell you in person if you’re unlucky enough to have a travel-addict friend that…
Here’s what happened when I spent sunrise at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. When it comes to time of day, I don’t have too many preferences. I mean, obviously 7pm is pretty sweet, 1am needs some kind of award for excellence, and 12 noon deserves a special place in everyone’s hearts, but beyond that I’m not…