Posts from year 2015
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Staying at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of staying at the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore. Completed in 2010, it is the world’s most expensive casino featuring 2500 rooms, celebrity chef restaurants, ice skating rink and of course the famous infinity pool at the top.
Art Nouveau in Ålesund
Even though nowhere near as remote as Tromsø or Svalbard, it still feels like I’ve reached the very end of Norway. Why someone chose to build a town out here in the rugged island semi-archipelago is a mystery to me.
The sound of Salzburg
Salzburg is a city so polished it almost feels like a movie set waiting for Julie Andrews to twirl back into frame. The cobbled streets are swept clean, the facades glow like they’ve been freshly lacquered.
Live and let Berlin
Berlin isn’t pretty. It doesn’t try to be. That’s the point. Berlin is change, a perpetual motion wrapped in concrete and graffiti.
Yet another year at Way Out West 2015
Time for yet another visit to Way Out West, the annual outdoor city festival in Gothenburg. At first the lineup seemed a bit sparse, but it actually turned out to be great.
In Bruges
Yes, I’m actually in Bruges. It’s not just a pun to the movie bearing that name. The medieval town feels like a description from a fairy tale, with cobbled streets and winding alleys.
Visions of Singapore
Singapore is stitched together by air-conditioned ambition, gleaming steel and a relentless desire to be something more than just a dot on the map. And it pulls it off, with style. The skyline isn’t just modern, it’s surgical.
Chilling at the Perhentian islands
The Perhentian Islands is a place off the northeastern coast of Malaysia where time forgets to move. Two dots of green in a turquoise sea, suspended somewhere between oblivion and brochure fantasy. It’s the kind of place that makes you question your return ticket. Or your life choices.
Urban chaos in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur slaps me in the face with curry fumes, honks in five languages and tries to drown me in sweat before breakfast. The heat is unbearable, the traffic unforgiving and the pace is relentless.
Review: Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
“Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” from 2008 is a great collection of travel stories with an unusual twist, since each chapter has ending notes which describes the circumstances surrounding that particular story. This is a great concept and feels like the director’s commentary track on DVDs.