Yesterday I applied online for a so called Working Holiday Visa to Australia. In the morning I had this message in my inbox: “This is to advise that you have been granted a Working Holiday Visa, Subclass 417, on 10 May 2011”. That was fast – thank you Australia! This means I am allowed to [ Read More ]
Another day spent doing updates on the internet and planning the last leg of the trip from Indonesia down to Australia. Both countries I am looking very much forward to visit. Later I stopped by the Marina Bay area close to the Central Business District. Little India, Chinatown and New York-style skyscrapers in such a [ Read More ]
In the morning I was enjoying the fast intenet at my hostel to upload some photos and videos from the last fantastic weeks in Malaysia. The internet was even fast enough to watch the live streaming from the Giro d’Italia bicycling race. I can’t remember being on an internet connection fast enough for live streaming [ Read More ]
I like my hostel in Little India. 15 Singapore dollars per night and there is free WiFi, air condition and tea/coffee. Why is it that in the more expensive hostels you usually have to pay for wifi when it is always free in the cheap places? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? After a [ Read More ]
Distance: 48.84 km Ridetime: 02:17:30 Average: 21.3 km/h Total distance: 10486 km After breakfast with Abdullah and his wife, I was trying to find the bridge that would take me to Singapore. A thing that I thought would be easy, but proved somehow difficult. Why are there no signs? I later learned that the Malaysian [ Read More ]
