I have never been so happy to see a sunset and call an end to the day. A day which started before sunrise, involved a lot of waiting around, and an excruciating eight hour…
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Asia/Pacific Eating Abroad Hotel Reviews Laos
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When you are living in hotels for months on end, the last thing you want to do is stay in more than one in the same city. I have to pack my bag enough…
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Asia/Pacific Eating Abroad Featured Malaysia
Dining Room at Macalister Mansion, Penang – A Menu of Discovery
After weeks of eating solely out of melanine plates and bowls, usually perched on stools at a wobbly plastic table, the sight of a well set table at Macalister Mansion was a welcomed one.…
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Asia/Pacific Eating Abroad Hotel Reviews Malaysia
G Hotel Gurney – A Savvy Stay in Penang’s Gurney Drive
I love Georgetown as much as the next street-art-obsessed slave to the ‘gram, but I also love getting away from it at the end of the day. The excitement of navigating its narrow streets…
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I winced a little every time a local asked me if we were going to climb Mount Kinabalu. The short answer was no, but their disappointed looks always made me feel the need to…
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Our first few days in Sabah had given us plenty of culture, delicious food, and a taste of their lush forests, but what we were craving now was a healthy dose of the sea!…
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Asia/Pacific Eating Abroad Featured Malaysia
Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre – A Guide to Visiting the Orangutan
There are very few things that a certain someone and I would get up at 430am for, but the chance to get up close and personal with some orangutan definitely made the cut. Rightfully…
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Asia/Pacific Eating Abroad Featured Malaysia
Kota Kinabalu – Ten Things to Do For First-Time Visitors
When I told my Malaysian aunties that we were going to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, they were equal parts curious and perplexed. “But why…”, they trilled. “You’ll be bored…”, they mused. “I don’t think…
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Each of our road trips start with either blasting out or belting out (depending on whether we’ve been fortunate enough to get the iPod connected or not) a song called Never Tire of the…
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We may have arrived in Melbourne late into the night, but from the very first moment I saw its dazzling city lights, I was smitten. Often described as a grown up version of our…
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Sleek but stark and sterile; hands up if you’ve heard words like this being used to describe Singapore? I have, for years now. The connotations conjure up images of skyrise after skyrise, a country…
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After boldly putting my Wellingtonian status on the line, I thought I better try and salvage what chance I have left of being let back into the city by pointing out that there is…