A Travel Blog
Regular readers of our travel blogs may have noticed a strange absence of museums in this blog to date. But, don’t panic, because today’s the day. We went to two museums/galleries, one housed in one of the most modern buildings you could imagine, a stylised lotus flower (symbolising a welcoming hand), and the other in … Read more
Round the island Back in 2010 before we started our travel blogs, Sue wrote a post on her litblog about doing tours. We felt after our experience on that holiday that those sorts of day and half-day tours were not for us. We did, however, do a couple in Spain, but for very particular purposes … Read more
Not that you’ll see any fine dining here, though it may be mentioned. Gourmet is, we believe, as gourmet does … and the thing is that, as travellers interested in food, we found a lot to interest us today.We didn’t mention breakfast yesterday, but our hotel deal includes breakfast and it is a full-scale buffet … Read more
CourtesySingapore, we’ve heard said, is a very Western city and therefore not of much interest to travellers wanting to experience the “real” Asia. Perhaps so, but while it’s clean, organised, and English is the main language, there is quite a different sensibility. For one thing, there’s a level of politeness and courtesy that seems both … Read more
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” ― Henry David Thoreau Oh dear, poor old Thoreau would be turning in his grave. We are almost too embarrassed to admit that we are about to take to the skies again. But it’s not always easy sailing is it? … Read more