Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
A new year, and again lots of exploration to see where to go to over the two long school vacation breaks in June and December. We were reasonably set to re-visit Japan at the end of this 2023 year, but
Another year has just whizzed past us. And it’s time to do an annual account of the major tech purchases this year, and how they fared. We actually picked up a fair number of gadgets in 2022, but just a
As is our tradition for every overseas trip we take, we’d do a final retrospective post about our observations of the country we traveled to, with our notes centred not only on places we visit, but also of food, culture
Continued from the last post! Food Club (Cross Gate Kanazawa, Day 07) Aashirwad Indian Nepalese Restaurant (Nagamachi, Day 08) Hachiban Ramen (Kanazawa Station, Day 09) Sogawa Base (Toyama, Day 10) Chitose (Takayama, Day 11) Cheese (Nagoya, Day 13) Mega Kebab
We haven’t put up detailed posts on our dining experiences over our Japan 2022 trip, on account that while we enjoy good food, blogging about culinary experiences is beyond us! The most we can probably say is whether the food
Unlike the 2019 trip, the 2022 trip this time round saw a couple of days – especially in the first week of our trip – where we experienced late autumn colors, which in turn made for great opportunities in post-processing
Every trip I make, I’d do a post-trip post commenting on the image capture experience of that trip. It’s mostly done in order to have a detailed record of what happened in the trip so that I can make more
The wife – being the lover of plants and horticulture hobbyist – was constantly observing the interesting plants, trees and shrubbery in winter everywhere we went, and frequently stopping to take pictures using her Samsung Note S9 of things she
Continuing from the last post that presented a summary of our itinerary and covering Days 01 to 07 of our 15 day trip to Japan in December 2022: here is Part 2 that covers Days 08 to 15. A key
Itinerary-wise, we drew several lessons from our 2019 trip to Tokyo and Hokkaido. For example, we made sure that our places of stay, as far as possible, would be close to the train stations. We gave ourselves buffer time to
Our flight home was departing from Chubu Centrair International Airport at 10:20AM today on Christmas. And over the last few days, we received the usual email reminders from Singapore Air nudging us to do online pre-departure check-in. We dutifully did
The fourth and last property we stayed at this 15 day trip, and in Nagoya. This was probably the hardest region to find accommodation, on account that by the time we’d firmed up our region of travel and dates, many
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