Distance: 130.31 km Ridetime: 05:37:23 Average: 23.2 km/h Total distance: 10646 km I woke up feeling more excited about the day than I have been doing for a long time. This would be my first day cycling on Sumatra. Actually neither my road map, nor Google Maps showed any road from Tungkal to Jambi, but [ Read More ]
Distance: 14.65 km Ridetime: 00:34:00 Average: 25.8 km/h Total distance: 10516 km In the morning I cycled the 15 km from Batam town to the ferry terminal and got a ticket for the 9:30 ferry to Kuala Tungkal on Sumatra. The ferry looked quite small considering it was supposed to be an 8 hour crossing. [ Read More ]
Distance: 15.11 km Ridetime: 00:37:18 Average: 24.3 km/h Total distance: 10501 km As I cycled through Singapore on the way to the ferry I was getting excited. In a few hours I would be in Indonesia, a place that would very much be a contrast to super developed Singapore. “Why don’t you just go to [ Read More ]
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 ]
Distance: 126.47 km Ridetime: 04:36:11 Average: 27.5 km/h Total distance: 10437 km After the last days of convoy cycling, Za’im, Cheng and myself were first told we would be cycling alone down to Johor Bahru. However, in the morning two cars showed up anyway, ready to follow us all the way. After breakfast with Eddy [ Read More ]
Distance: 94.17 km Ridetime: 03:26:55 Average: 27.3 km/h Total distance: 10311 km If I had envisioned a quiet day by myself on the road, I was soon proven wrong. The amateur radio guys of Johor were about to pull off yet another surprise. For the first 10 km I was cycling together with Sham, one [ Read More ]
