A culture chat with Sri Lankan artist Michelle Perera on in The Supposed To Be, leaving Colombo, Melbourne theatre, and her Sri Lanka must-dos…
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Our Dubai desert safari started with an adrenaline-pumping ride of a lifetime.…
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I took a train and rode on women and kids only carts in downtown Dubai today. It wasn’t an entirely new concept for me. It has been operating in Jakarta for some time. It’s just I had never ridden in it before. If you had asked me about my take on the women-only carriage…
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In my dream, I stay in an apartment right above Little India. I manage a cultural publication solely dedicated to Little India and spend my days writing about everything about it.…
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“How much did we pay for our Barcelona Airbnb again?” my cousin asked me while standing in front of a tiny white building with a metal door sans window. Implying that we might have gone for a too-cheap option. Barcelona Airbnb Neighborhood Standing in the middle of a back alley in the Catalonia neighbourhood,…
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I went to Vienna to eat their local delicacy, a chocolate cake named Sacher Torte. Austria is known worldwide for its culinary contributions, especially for their cakes. I heard about the world-famous Sacher Torte when I read a memoir of Austria by an Indonesian travel writer a few years ago and decided that I ought to…
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The Berlin street food we had was delicious, and cultures beyond German culture heavily influenced some of it. Here is some of it: Currywurst Currywurst is the most famous Berlin street food mentioned in travel blogs. It would practically be a traveller’s sin not to try it, at least once. Using that very excuse, I tried my first Currywurst…
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Salzburg Is the fairy tale must-visit pocket of Austria. I had a plan for Vienna, something related to eating the world-famous Sacher Torte; Meanwhile, I went without any expectations to Salzburg. On our first morning there, we crossed the bridge and explored Old Town Salzburg, where the Hohensalzburg Castle located. It was my first…
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People who travel from far away often overlook Brussels as a travel destination. But if after seeing a waffles-filled Instagram feed of your friends who have been there; or being half-forced when travelling with family (which happened to me), you decide to add it to your Europe trip where you are going to spend…
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Today is my last day in Singapore, and all I can think about since morning is how I never had a go-to, trusted hairdresser here. In the past weeks, I have packed my Singapore expat life into three FedEx boxes and two pieces of luggage. The former has been shipped, and the latter will…
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Tapau or Tau Pao, or Ta Bao is a Malaysian slang (that has widely spilled over to Singapore and therefore is a part of Sing-lish).…
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