Journey author milestones: I co-wrote a Lonely Planet Singapore guidebook!

This 12 months is a milestone birthday 12 months for me however not like different years the place I normally plan an epic birthday journey, I can’t actually do an excessive amount of this 12 months due to the timing of my impending vacationer information license evaluation. (Sure, I’m engaged on changing into a licensed vacationer information in Singapore!)

Regardless, it’s been a reasonably epic begin to the 12 months to date. For starters, the thirteenth version of Lonely Planet Singapore that I co-wrote is lastly out in print! It’s all the time been a kind of lofty daydreams that child journey writers have once they first get began, to see your title on one among these guidebooks that assist individuals get round, so I’m fairly proud and stoked to have contributed to this version.

This weblog’s been round since 2010, and I began writing for others round 2013, however the novelty of seeing my stuff revealed has by no means actually light.

It’s a good way to kick off a brand new decade 🙂 I’m curious to see what new insights I’ll need to share in future after I look again on these posts, like my 30s journey and 20s journey posts.

Should you’re questioning what the brand new Lonely Planet Singapore information seems like, listed below are some snippets that I contributed to that they’ve shared on their store web page. It’s a little bit of a change from the unique LP model which was extra info-heavy, however they’ve needed to pivot with right now’s new reliance on the web and instantaneous updates, so I hope you’ll discover this new format helpful as properly.

Lonely Planet Singapore Cover
Lonely Planet: Singapore (thirteenth Version)
Lonely Planet Singapore Authors
There have been 3 writers on this version of LP Singapore – because the noob I contributed to the again sections protecting West Singapore, Sentosa, Day Journeys and a few essays
Lonely Planet Singapore: Day Trips
Day journey choices when you should escape Singapore’s shores
Lonely Planet Singapore Essay: Stories from Singapore's Walls
Can’t assist however write about avenue artwork in Singapore

Researching for this journey information and all the extra finding out I’ve needed to do for my vacationer information license (if anybody needs to do that, know that it’s not a stroll within the park) has positively made me be taught much more about my dwelling nation. I assumed I knew Singapore fairly properly earlier than, however I positively respect how rather more I’ve learnt.

Anyway that was only a fast replace of what’s happening right here within the background. Whereas the consistency of posts may be very depending on how my life goes, I nonetheless love journey and love writing about it, so thanks all of you continue to studying for sticking with me all this time.

Subsequent 12 months I’m positively going to need to do one thing correctly epic to make up for this birthday although!


Need to see what my concept of a correct birthday celebration seems like? Take a look at previous epic birthdays celebrated abroad right here:

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