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Gardens by the Bay Singapore Background and Themed Cultural Gardens

The Gardens by the Bay is a key sustainability-related horticulture project in Singapore. It is in her quest to be a world-class Garden city. Moreover, this includes realizing the vision of being an eco-tourist destination and the botanical capital of the world. This is of course with environmental sustainability at heart. This article covers in detail a...
Europe

London Natural History museum explorations

The London Natural History museum is one of my few favourite museums in the South Kensington district I always enjoy visiting. It is a spectacle in its own right from the myriad of exhibits, history and vastness of the establishment, such as dinosaurs, fossils, taxidermy, and Skeletons. The British is a pioneer of Natural history, having mapped most...
Europe

Tower of London explorations and museum

Today let’s take a visit to the Tower of London. It is a 900-year-old historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, and is officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace an iconic landmark in the City of London which served as a royal residence and a state prison. Let’s explore! On some history, The...
Europe

Roman Bath and Bath City

Let’s visit the historical Roman Bath in Bath City England with a day trip. It is a historical city and UESCO cultural site, and home to a largely intact Roman public bath constructed since the 60-70AD. Got token? Bath attraction lobby Audio guide A trip to bath and the Roman bath attraction takes about half a trip tops. Driving there from...
Europe

Exploring Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle

Let's check out a day of British royalty with a summer visit to two royal residences in England, namely the Buckingham Palace in Westminster London and Windsor palace in the English county of Berkshire. These palaces serve as the residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom. They are typically occupied during different times...
Europe

Stonehenge exploration at Salisbury Wiltshire, England

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is a subject of much controvery, particularly its origins and is a highly recognizable landmark. It is also an early technological display and achievement of early human of where we came from to today. Lets pay the monument and British cultural icon a...
Europe

Palace of Westminster London parliament

The Westminster Palace is a hub for United Kingdom of political life for over a thousand years. Marvel at the millennia-old architectures and visit iconic chambers and halls of British parliament within with a special summer tour and walkthrough. The nearest tube station to get there is of course, “Westminster”. The name is synonymous with the UK Parliament...
Europe

London Transport Museum Adventures

What you get when you are the world’s pioneers when it comes to public transportation? Why start a museum of public transportation of course. Today we pay a visit to the London Transport Museum. Moreover, the museum is a large cavernous one, with galleries spanning multiple floors in the London covert garden district in the city of London....
Europe

London Olympics 2012 Olympic Park

The 2012 London Olympics is in full swing now with on-going events at multiple locations around the city of London. Lets check out the sights and sounds at the heart of the London Olympics 2012 Olympic Park and the neighboring Olympics venues such as the O2 arena, Wembley stadium and the Excel arena in the London docklands. The...
Europe

London Eye Observation Wheel

The London Eye is a tall observation wheel sitting in the heart of London along the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel. Let’s go on board today with a ride and check out the views from the top. Moreover, you may know the London Eye as its other name,...
Europe

Victoria & Albert Museum South Kensington London (V&A)

If you fancy historical applied arts, decorative arts, and design, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London's South Kensington is one to fancy. The museum is known in its short name as the V&A museum. The museum covers 5.1 hectares of space across floors and 145 mini galleries. The interior galleries are laid out in a logical...
Europe

London Hyde Park chill

Let's visit London's largest green spot in the city, London Hyde Park. It is one to spend a chill day out in one of the most happening cities in the world. An exploration we will do. Notably, the city park situated in the heart of downtown London is a nice green refuge from the buzzing cosmopolitan city. Furthermore,...
Events

Olympic Torch Relay 2012 on Cambridge Punts

The Torch relay this Olympics involves bringing the torch through various sights and cities around Cambridge, such a horse back riding and water bodies, on top of the traditional on-road type relay. The one in the second league of the relay in Cambridge is no exception either. From the event at Parker's piece the night before, on this...
Events

2012 Olympic Torch Relay Cambridge league on Parker’s Piece

The Olympic flame is coming to Cambridge city, in style the least. Cambridge city forms part of the London Olympic Torch Relay route leading up to the 2012 Olympics, involving 8,000 inspirational torchbearers in total, where the flame will eventually reach the London Olympic stadium for the opening ceremonies on the 27th this month. The torch arrived...
Events

London Shard Skyscraper inauguration laser light show

London Shard tower is a skyscraper in London, England UK. Construction started in 2009 and was completed not too long ago on 30 March 2012, it is due to open publicly in February next year. It is the tallest habitable structure in Europe standing at 309.6m high (1,016 ft). The tower is however the second-tallest free-standing structure...
Americas

Busch Gardens Tampa, Florida

Busch Gardens Tampa is one of the few unique “Zoo theme parks” with a world-class theme park complete with renowned rides and roller coasters situated together with a wildlife zoo. Tampa city, with its typical hot, marshy and warm Florida climate are perfect grounds to create a savannah habitat within its 136 hectare compound as a premiere...
Americas

Disney World Epcot, Florida

Epcot is one of the five theme parks in Walt Disney World Resort at Bay Lake, Orlando, Florida. Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company Parks and Resorts division. It is one of the few parks the result of the brain child of Walt Disney himself, who coined and developed the idea of a separate park...
Americas

Guggenheim Museum New York City

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, also known as The Guggenheim, is a private art museum in New York City USA. The building is home to the abstract art collection of Solomon since he started collection art dating back since the 1920s. Let’s explore the museum today with a walkthrough. Furthermore, the gallery started out as a private art...
Americas

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Explorations

Let’s check out the Boston Museum fine arts with a day trip. It is an arts museum on Eastern American University city in Boston, Massachusetts. Furthermore, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870, it sits in Boston, MA along 465 Huntington Avenue. The front courtyard entrance of the museum sits the Cyrus Dallin's Appeal to...
Americas

Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston

The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (ICA), USA is a contemporary modern arts museum in Boston city. The building, like the art it exhibits within is a modern one. Let's check out the shining jewel by the bay side with a regular gallery patron visit. Since 2006, the private modern arts museum sits on a quiet corner...
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Technology and Gadgets

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Galaxy Ai 2024 new Fold 6 and Flip 6

Let’s take a hands-on of Samsung’s new foldable phones and wearables at this year’s Galaxy AI Unpacked 2024 event in Singapore. The global event...

Belkin BoostCharge portable Magsafe 5k charger review

Gadgets

Belkin 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad review

Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 unpacked

Gadgets

Events

Events

Lights by the lake 2024 Jurong lake gardens

Let’s take a visit and explore the Mid-Autumn Lights by the Lake 2024 at the Jurong Lake Gardens. The event offers a Singaporean celebration...

Singapore Night Festival 2024

Events

Cable Cars A Ride Through Time at Vivocity Mall

Events

Singapore Garden Festival 2024

Events

Food Reviews

European

Kapitan Slavic Ukrainian restaurant

Let’s take a dine-in today visiting the Kapitan Slavic Ukrainian/Russian restaurant at Tanjong Pagar. The restaurant offers a curated offering of Eastern Europe. The...

Sheng Ji Fishball Noodle Bukit Merah

Asian

Yat Ka Yan Dessert (Fortune Centre)

Asian

Kheng Fatt beef noodles Golden Mile

Asian

COCA steamboat

Buffets

Mio Fine Foods Neil Road

Japanese

Food for thought National Museum

Western

Museums

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