Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Some of the most stunning pictures one can get out of a Maldives trip would be ones taken on sand banks. These are tiny little islands with white sand, and little else – no vegetation, no shrubbery and tree cover.
Our guesthouse host Sameer really took on board how we fared for our maiden snorkeling outing yesterday morning, and planned for something simpler this time: a house reef just off Huraa about 300 meters from the shoreline and thus just
Given the various challenges our party of noob snorkelers experienced on Day 2 – including Peter who didn’t want to give it another go – our host @ The Sunrise Huraa, Sameer, proposed that we go to an easier location
Both the wife and our Ang Mo bud have snorkeled before, so of the three adults this trip, I was the noob. The Sunrise Huraa offers different packages at varying prices between USD15 to USD45/pax, depending on the location and
The wife loves holidays on islands with clear turquoise waters and pristine beaches. I’m not really a beach person. So while this is our fifth island-wise vacation as a couple and family – the others being Pulau Rawa, Telunas, Koh
In a sense, the kind of imagery that I’m expecting to take for our upcoming 10 Days in Maldives is pretty narrow in range: semi-wide angle shots in good day light, portraiture of the kids while they play on the
There are a number of heritage hotels located in downtown Singapore, especially in the Chinatown and Bugis area. Many of these are converted from old shophouses in the last decade or so. Generally speaking, most of these heritage hotels offer
A continuation from the series of posts about our upcoming June vacation spot in the Maldives! Deciding which private island to stay at was relatively easy compared to deciding which public island to stay at over the first six days
Our two kids have taken a new love of staying overnight with grandparents at our family home. Besides the fact that our parents’ house is a lot bigger, they also get to play with the neighbors similarly-aged children. That’s quite
Here’s an odd bit of travel fact: when it comes to the Maldives and these private resort islands, unlike the majority of many other island-type resorts elsewhere in the world, you get exactly what you see in those stunning pictures.
If our planning this week works out, the wife will finally got a life-long wish of visiting the Maldives: we’re planning to head there in June this year, and hopefully with our ang mo bud, Matt whom we have been
Now that our kids are ever slightly older, we’ve also become more comfortable leaving them at their paternal grandparents’ place for them to spend a night so that parents can get a day free of kids. We’ve already had one
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