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Travel Journal

Seven days in Seoul with mum: An unlikely bonding trip after a decade

The writer and her mother on a trip to South Korea in November 2025, their first time travelling as a pair in almost a decade.

Travel Journal

The best place I travelled to in 2025 was a nunnery

The western end of the Norman abbey church of St Mary's Abbey, probably completed towards the end of the 12th century.

Travel Journal: Want richer holiday memories? Drop the phone and pick up a pen

The writer began writing poetry while on his honeymoon, while on his honeymoon in Osaka and Kyoto.

Travel Journal: Safari tourism with a side of moral crisis

The writer visited a safari park in South Africa in 2016, and was allowed to pet lion cubs.

Travel Journal: Middle East tensions left me stranded in Abu Dhabi

The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. Flight disruptions turned the writer’s journey from a trip to Kyrgyzstan into a four-day stop in the UAE.

Travel Journal: Finding my place as a Singaporean Chinese abroad

The Singaporean writer – seen here with her daughters on a trip to Japan – reflects on being mistaken for a Chinese national abroad.

Travel Journal: Why I gave up the chance to see a whale shark in the wild

klbohol - A school of sardines passing by during one of our dives

ST PHOTO: ANG KAI LIN

Travel Journal: Rediscovering my Tamil roots through cooking and language in Sri Lanka

While spending 1½ months in Jaffna, the writer found a deeper connection to her Tamil roots.

Travel Journal: I met my Spanish pen pal after 30 years

The writer and her pen pal Kiko, a Spaniard whose real name is Francisco Canizares, began exchanging letters in their teens and finally met in person after decades.

Travel Journal: I lost €200 in Paris and fought with scammers to claw some of it back

Paris regularly makes top 10 lists of the most-visited destination in the world, but tourist hot spots such as the streets around Sacre-Coeur Basilica church also draw scammers.

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