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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I flew to Japan last Saturday with my best friends. My second Japan trip, to fulfil the pact we made at the airport three years ago, to come back again because it’s JAPAN! I dislike repeating things and for someone who hasn’t seen much of the world and with limited work leave, I shouldn’t…
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Visiting Shibuya means walking on the iconic Shibuya crossing. The world’s busiest pedestrian crossing, the Shibuya crossing is a quirky thing to tick off of the Tokyo travel list. I expected to see some weird shenanigans while walking on the Shibuya crossing. But instead, rushing among thousands of strangers, I felt overwhelmed. I chalked it out as a dehydration…
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Shinjuku at night was busier and livelier than Shinjuku during the daytime. There was a 7-11 below the hotel so I got my goodies for the night, including various Onigiri, random coffee cans and a bottle of wine and went back to the hotel.…
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Known as the most expensive district in Tokyo and one of the most expensive areas in the world, Ginza is a paradise for high-end shoppers.…
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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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