Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Day 03 and we finally get to one of the highlights of this 11-day trip to Cebu: swimming with whale sharks, an experience that’s new for all of us and likely not something we’d do again in the near future!
The 90-minute drive from Simala Shrine to Osmeña Peak was a lot smoother, with fairly low traffic plying the road as we continued south. Osmeña Peak is the tallest point on Cebu Island and sits inside a region of impressive-looking
Despite the fact that we didn’t have that heavy an itinerary on Day 01 — we were just arriving from Singapore, checking into the hotel, then figuring out dinner — all of us were so doggoned tired after the first
Point to note: the line-of-sight distance between Mactan-Cebu International Airport and Radisson Blu Cebu — the property we’re staying in for the first night — is not nearly the actual distance you’d need to travel to get from the airport
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
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
My purchase of the Sony RX100 VII has been four years in the gestation! I have long wanted one of the Sony RX100’s, even at the point when I purchased the Canon G7X Mark II 7 years ago. This Sony
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
The acquisition for a replacement travel laptop has been long in gestation: as in the Dell XPS 13 9380 refurbished laptop I picked up from the Dell factory outlet store four years ago have been barely keeping up in 2023
In what might be a very Singaporean thing to do: we plan our next vacation as soon as the current one ends! Towards the tail end of our 18 days in Japan last month, I was discussing with the missus
Our last post of 2023! Another year has zoomed right past us! It’s always been a little challenging for me to write these posts at the end of the year, since we — routinely excepting those years during COVID —
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
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