Cebu 2024 – Day 01 – Arrival
Our 11 days in Cebu is one of those trips where we did 99% of our planning months before travel, and thereafter did little else besides wait for the trip to begin. Of the 11 days, seven days would be
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Cebu 2024 – Planning – Part 2 -Equipment
We’re about a week away from heading to our Cebu trip! Our last trip to tropical islands for sun and snorkeling was five years ago, pre-COVID, during our trip to the Maldives. So, in a sense, I already had a
Cebu 2024 – Planning – Part 1 – Itinerary
From the point in time in January to the actual trip was a long five months in between. But with our decision to visit Cebu rather than Bali made and a broad itinerary worked out, we next went about contacting
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Final Notes
Our 18-day trip to the Chubu and Kanto regions of Japan has been our longest vacation ever as a family, and my seventh trip to the country now. As is my tradition every time we travel, I’d do a final
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Equipment Comments
The first of the last two posts in this series covering our 18-day trip to Japan, and this one will be about the image and video capturing experience of the trip. I reckon the most important thing to say first
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Dining in Japan – Part 1
Our notes recording selected things we dined on during this 18-day trip to Japan! This is a long visual record, so it’s split into two parts. Continued in the next post that covers Days 09 to 18!
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Flora
As she always does, the wife was using the S21 Ultra this trip to take pictures of flora. She, after all, quipped on Facebook that: And truth be told, she has a much better eye for creative picture framing and
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Itinerary Retrospection – Part 2
Continued from the last post! Day 9 (Kawagoe) Kawagoe – Temples and Kanetsuki-dori Street (2 hrs) [blog post here]: This was another pleasant day trip that we made out of Tokyo. The place is easy to get to, and it
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Itinerary Retrospection – Part 1
This has been our longest family vacation at 18 days, and it was a rare opportunity for us to be able to take such a long holiday. The vacation went remarkably well: we were able to hit most of our
Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – APA Hotel Keisei Ueno Ekimae
The fifth and last of our blog entries observing our places of stay on this 18-day trip to Japan! We stayed at the APA Hotel Keisei Ueno Ekimae for just one night, so our notes would probably be limited by
Day 18 @ Tokyo – Singapore
Our final day in Japan, and this would be a post recording our experiences of arriving at Narita and leaving Japan! Firstly, perhaps it’s a Singaporean thing to over-plan and over-compensate when it comes to traveling. But we had been
Day 17 @ Matsumoto – Tokyo: Ueno
Day 17 today was our last major relocation from Nagano prefecture back to Tokyo. We initially toyed with the idea of racing from Nagano to Tokyo and flying home on the same day, but we couldn’t find a suitable flight
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