Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
A third place of interest is the old Fukuoka Castle Ruins. The starting point of the park where the ruins are located — Maizuru Park — is about 6 minutes away from Ohori Park and an easy walk, but there’s
Ohori Park is decent, but the real gem is the Japanese Garden tucked in the south-eastern corner of the park. Most visitors to the park itself won’t visit this quiet spot, possibly also on account that there’s a small admission
The outbound flight from Singapore to Fukuoka Airport was uneventful and almost totally free from any kind of turbulence. Oddly though, the inflight breakfast was pretty awful and bland — or maybe I should have opted for the Japanese menu
Equipment-wise, the Maldives trip turned out to be quite a varied experience: I bought just two lenses for the Sony A73 — the FE 24-105mm and Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 — and not unexpectedly, used the former far more than I
Before we began planning for our Maldives trip, a stay at a water villa at an all-inclusive private island was the bucket list item. So, in a sense, the planning for our 10 day trip was first largely centered around
The third in my series of posts covering Olhuveli by day, night, and finally — at sunrise. The lightweight Sirui T-024X Carbon Fiber Tripod and C-10S Ball Head was carted along for this Maldives trip. And after two earlier attempts
A companion pictorial blog post to Olhuveli by Day, and this time when the sun sets. Our Ang Mo bud quipped that he was half-expecting a bunch of very drunk Aussies to show up at any time. Fortunately, that never
It was literally impossible to take a bad picture at the Olhuveli Beach & Spa Maldives. A collection of pictures from our point of arrival and across the four days we stayed at the property. I’ll do a longer commentary
Truth to tell, prior to departure, I did have some trepidation about the length of time we’d be spending on a local island, and that we’d be staying in a guest house. The touristy private island resorts, where we’d be
Some of the most stunning pictures one can get out of a Maldives trip would be ones taken on sand banks. These are tiny little islands with white sand, and little else – no vegetation, no shrubbery and tree cover.
Given the various challenges our party of noob snorkelers experienced on Day 2 – including Peter who didn’t want to give it another go – our host @ The Sunrise Huraa, Sameer, proposed that we go to an easier location
Our yearly tradition of having taking our family pictures on the first day of the Lunar New Year. This year’s setup is different though, with the Sony A73 doing duties for the first of hopefully many years to come. The
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