Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa Resort – Day 1 (22Dec 2016) I have some Shangri-La Golden Circle points expiring Dec 2016.  So I decided to use the points to book 2 rooms at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa Resort so that we can have a short  family staycation in Sentosa.  I had originally wanted to book 2 rooms for […]
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Kinabalu Park and Poring Nature Walk Mt Kinabalu is a prominent mountain on the island of Borneo. It is the tallest mountain in the Malay Archipelago. The mountain and its surroundings are among the most important biological sites in the world, with thousands of species of plants, birds etc. Its rich collection of wildlife include famous
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Day 11 (25 Dec 2017) : Launceston – Warrnambool Today, we took a mid morning flight (10.05am) from Launceston to Melbourne. We had chosen to fly on Christmas Day as many places of interest in Australia are closed and this is probably the most efficient use of time. The drive from Murphett’s Cottage to Launceston
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 Day 5 : Eastern Kyoto (Higashiyama) This morning we checked out of Sanga before we went about our sightseeing.  We were changing to Matsui Honkan, another ryokan nearby that night.  We were late in our booking and many ryokans were already fully booked.  Sanga was only available for 2 night.  We had to book another ryokan
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Day 10 (24 Dec 2017) : Launceston I woke up early to make breakfast for everyone today because today is not only Christmas Eve but also DS2’s birthday. He turns 18! I made simple pancakes. I had bought 2 bottles of shaker pancakes, add water to them and pour on the pan, fry and they
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Pan Pacific Hotel, Suzhou I. Hotel Grounds: On a recent business trip to China in May, I had a brief one night stopover in Suzhou. Â Decided to stay in Suzhou for the day instead of travelling back to Shanghai that same day. I stayed at the Pan Pacific Suzhou which is located in the Old
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Day 4 : Essential stops along the Golden Circle Breakfast this morning was at the restaurant in the farmhouse. Â We trotted there in our warm clothing. Â It was a beautiful morning and was no longer as cold as the night before. Besides the usual bread and cold cut, they serves waffles. Â The hot waffles
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Wangfujing & Ghost Street Shopping @ Wangfujing As mentioned in my previous post, I stayed at Grand Hyatt Beijing for the Peking Duck at the hotel’s Chinese restaurant and shopping at Wangfujing. Wangfujing is a pedestrian shopping street in Beijing. It was as usual full of shoppers when I took a walk there during this
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Day 9: Porto We arrived at Porto in the mid morning.  The main city in the Douro region is Porto, the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon, the capital. Most river cruises of the Douro do a round trip Porto. But as we wanted to go to Madrid, we did Vegas Teron to Porto. The
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Day 11 : Disembarkation @ Porto & Fatima enroute to Lisbon After breakfast we disembared from our ship, and boarded buses which were going to take us to Fatima, a town famous for its shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fatima is a world renown Marian Shrine and pilgrimage site for Catholics.  The Blessed
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