When it comes to travel, Jeremy Jauncey was a late bloomer. He had spent his life on a farm in rural Scotland until, at 18 years old, he was offered an opportunity to play elite level rugby in New Zealand. But first, he had a layover in Singapore. “I remember being at Changi Airport for the first time. I had never seen an airport that big—I was blown away,” Jauncey recalls. “I was looking at the arrivals board, seeing all of the flights coming in from Italy, from Australia—all these places that had never been on my radar. I remember thinking, ‘I have not seen any of the world. I haven’t experienced any of this.’ I felt like I was missing out.”
Stepping out of the airport that day only magnified these feelings as he wandered around the Lion City, observing an atmosphere and way of life that was completely different to what he’d known. “Going into hawker centres and eating
