Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Our original pre-departure itinerary for Day 7 was centered around the Rawai area of Phuket: with a visit to Rawai Park in the morning, the beach in the early afternoon, and Phuket Seashell Museum for the rest of the day.
Even without kids, neither the wife nor myself are party animals, instead preferring very sedate leisure activities like gardening/baking/cooking for the wife, and photography/music/computing for myself. Still, and largely out of curiosity to see what the fuss is about, we
We haven’t been to the Trick Eye Museum situated at Resorts World Sentosa yet, so figured that we could just as well make do with the Phuket equivalent of that. The museum is a convenient five minute walk away from
Many of us would have seen elephants before, whether it’s at a zoo or at animal shows in this part of the world – but unlikely in a setting like this. We visited Phuket Elephant Sanctuary (PES) on Day 3,
One of the most commonly heard criticisms of Phuket as a holiday location is that large parts of the island have been overly commercialized to cash in on the tourism boom, with beaches that were once famous for their serenity
Just a few more posts in our WA series – honest! And this one is for tech junkies – comments on how various gadgets and toys fared during the trip! The Olympus E-M1 continued to perform admirably on it’s third
Our next visitation place was Scitech Perth, the interactive science museum that was a short 10 minute drive away from The Perth Mint. The entire floor is choked full of exhibits for children to try on, and each area is
Day 11 and our last day in Perth. Our flight was late in the night – the nice benefit of choosing Jetstar as our carrier again – which meant we had a full-day to explore a few more sights before
Next stop was a short 10 minute drive to Elizabeth Quay, though parking was painfully expensive (AUD12.60 for 3 hrs – ouch!). The area is a mixed-use development project, and you could easily spend hours exploring not just the Spanda
Day 10, and one more day left to our vacation to WA. We planned to make the trip to Whiteman, north of Perth, to visit the Caversham Wildlife Park in the earlier versions of our itinerary, but after that was
If you ask Hannah on what she thinks is the biggest highlight of this vacation – even though there are still two more days left to go in this 11 day stay in Western Australia – she’ll say without hesitation,
The second stop we made was in Dawesville, a suburb of Mandurah and located between the Harvey Estuary and the Indian Ocean, according to Google’s write-up of it. We drove along Estuary road until we came to a spot that
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