Day 02 @ Nara – Yoshikien Garden and Todaji Temple

There are two small Japanese gardens that visitors walking towards Todaji Temple will go past: Isuien, Yoshikien Garden. Both are literally beside each other, separated by fences. We visited both in 2010, and liked the latter more – so that

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Day 01 @ Kyoto – Arrival and Philosopher’s Walk

A scan of our Facebook friends’ feeds quickly shows how popular Japan is as a travel destination this time round – no doubt again on account that a lot of Singaporeans really want to have their vacations in Japan before

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Spectrum of the Seas – Part 8 – Final Notes

Finally, my last substantive post of our 5D4N cruise with Royal Caribbean International onboard the Spectrum of the Seas, with a 16-20 June sailing date! I figured I’d quickly put together my notes and comments of our trip right after

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Spectrum of the Seas – Part 7 – Reflections of the Trip – The Not So Great

And here we go: the parts that didn’t work well. Queues. Sure, queuing up is our national past-time. But the fact that guests have already sunk in this much money into a compacted trip, and then feel like they’re getting

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Spectrum of the Seas – Part 6 – Reflections of the Trip – The Good

Like everything else we’ve written about in our blog here – for more than 20 years and counting now – our 5D4N cruise trip onboard the Spectrum of the Seas was paid for entirely out of our pocket. So, we’re

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Spectrum of the Seas – Part 5 – Activities

Well, what’s there to do when you’re on a 5D4N cruise that isn’t stopping over anywhere for excursions? As it turned out, there was plenty that took us out of our stateroom. And the range included headliner performances, casual family-friendly

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