If you haven’t read our introduction to our trip to Japan, we suggest you read that first here. Koya San On our first weekend in Japan, we decided to go to a place we read about called Koya-San. This is a small mountain town a coupe of hours south of Osaka, where a branch of…
Our latest adventure has been exploring a little bit of Japan. Everything here has been absolutely beautiful, and the people have been incredibly friendly. We will work on writing the different places we have gone to in several posts, as there’s a lot of great stuff. Firstly, we would like to share some of our…
Today we arrived back to Singapore after a weekend at famous Phuket – Thailand. This was our 1st long weekend away looking for paradise. Phuket is one of the most popular places to go because of its breath taking beaches so we had high expectations. We travel with TigerAir (budget Asian airline) and the…
Holiday season is almost here and with that we have lots of visitors coming over! Uhu!!! We have pulled together a list of 'must-dos' for folks coming to spend a few days in Singapore so I thought I would share those with you. Here it goes. Day1: Sentosa Island! This is a man made…
Hungry and looking for a quick amazing bite? Hawker Centres are just the place you are looking for. Singapore used to have a lot of food carts on the streets that were ran by immigrants from China, Malaysia and India. A few years back, the government took all of them from the streets and put…
Dear Readers, sorry we have been extremely bad at keeping up with the posts. Reason: we moved! We have been living in Singapore for the last few months and we will be here for the next foreseeable future. This means that the next posts will be mostly about our adventures in this side of the…
We went to Crete to celebrate my 30's birthday. And what better way to celebrate than with your loved one, friends, beach and sun? There is so much to see in Crete that I feel that this is not a very fair assessment of this gorgeous island. We went to centre and west part of…
So here I am, writing about Russia again (Dec'12). This time though I have only good things to write. St. Petersburg was a pleasant surprise in all fronts: sight seeing, people and culture. I spent there 1 full day as a tourist and another 3 days working going to consumers homes. On the 1 day…
We are on our way to our holidays in Mexico and NY and my sister kindly shared with us her survival guide for NY. These tips have been put together over the past 7 years and countless visits. Thanks Carol for sharing your secrets with us 🙂 I am not sure we can beat what…
It is September 2012 and we are at Porto, Portugal. It is a very special trip because we are here with my dear sister and brother in law. So if my judgement is compromised you know why 😉 The town: very cute little town around the river Douro. It is quite hilly and antique with…