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A hike along the Granchester Meadows & tea at the Orchard Tea Garden

Grantchester is a village on the River Cam or Granta in Cambridgeshire, England. It is a tranquil little village not to far off from the heartland of Cambridge city. The place is known for it’s nice iconic scenery and great English breakfast offerings. The area is also said to have the world's highest concentration of Nobel Prize winners, presumably...
Europe

Sights along the London River Thames

London is a world class city with much to explore, given the sights at almost every corner. But you won't be able to call your visit to London complete without a walk by the Thames itself. With the exception of the markets and some museum, many of London's main attractions and viewing sites are all conveniently located along the...
Europe

Cardiff Wales Trip (Barry Island & Castles in Cardiff and St Fagans)

In stark contrast to the modern buzzes of life in Cardiff, this second part of my Cardiff trip will cover trips to more medieval parts of town, particular the Cardiff castle and the St Fagans village and National History Museum. The Castell Caerdydd, which most of us come to know as the Cardiff Castle is a medieval castle and Victorian...
Europe

Cardiff Wales Trip (By the Cardiff bay, River Taff & Millennium stadium)

Cardiff city trip (19th to 22nd December 2009) Cardiff is the capital of Wales and has a population estimated at three million. Wales (Cymru) itself is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and is officially bilingual with English and the indigenous Welsh language, both having equal status. My trip there started with a long bus trip from...
Europe

Snow in Cambridge! Off to Cardiff!

It snowed throughout last night, what better way there is than to spend the day before touring UK with a snowy white Christmas here in Cambridge? Whoohoo! *fluffs* It had been about 8 and 14 years (if I remember correctly) since I last played with real snow. And it feels just like the morning of Christmas like a kid...
Places

Singapore flyer- The sights, Singapore formula 1 GP paddock and grid, Marina bay barrage and city skyline

All the 28 capsule on the wheel are all glass encased, self-rotating, air-conditioned and climate-controlled gondolas with their own independent ventilators. There are plenty of standing space with 4 fiber glass benches facing each face of the capsule longitudinally. Though each capsules is capable of holding 28 passengers, seldom do this limit is reached when there are space to...
Places

Singapore flyer- First impressions, entering the compound

First impressions- entering the compound Upon arrival at the center, the visitor center building do look alot bigger in person than what I initially know of during visits when it was under construction. Thick strong industrial guiders “guywires” can be seen arching the wheel super structure on each of it surrounding 4 corners. Each mated to a large embedded concrete...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 6 /6

24th Dec Sunday- The days just seem to pass by faster and faster, this is the last day in Medan, Indonesia, also our rest day where we get to do sightseeing and shopping. Got out of bed 8am local time which means about 6 hours of sleep from the last night (where many got less having BBQ overnight). Good...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 5/6

23th Dec Saturday - It bag packing time and we are heading to Brastagi! We were told to split our bags into 2 sets, one to bring up, the other left at home so we can pick it up on our way back tomorrow (& it beats carrying all our luggage up there too). Breakfast this time, is the...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 4/6

22th Dec Friday - Today would be the mental hospital day visit, for many it will be a first time experience stepping into one, coupled with all kinds of freaky stories Ning told us the day before. Breakfast was hokkein mee on banana leaf before embarking on about an hour's long journey to the hospital which is situated in...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 3/6

21th Dec Thursday - Woke up early in the morning, then it's an hour plus trip out of Kota Medan to another neighboring smaller town where we encountered rather interesting padi fields and cow crossings upon reaching the rural area. Where the old folks home we are visiting for the day is located. Old folks home visit We were greeted by...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 2/6

20th Dec Wednesday – 8.30am (Medan Time) Woke up with feeling very sleepy after last night's meeting, had only 6 1/2 hours of sleep. Recapping on the meeting from last night we tied down and finalized the tasks to do. The plan is to do origami & balloons for the primary school students chaired largely by the Peili, while...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 1/6

19th Dec Tuesday - 7.50am (SGT) Flight from Changi Airport to Medan International Airport. It had been raining the last whole days, but that didn't drench our sprits nor delay our scheduled 1 hour flight to Medan. We landed and cleared customs, little do we know we “brought the rain over” from Singapore as well. We were greeted by...
Polytechnic

Medan Indonesia Community Service Trip

Alot of stuffs have been happening lately, namely in preps for all the events next week - the week before christmas. While most the limelight is on Christmas shopping for PS3 and Nintendo Wii, there's chalet planning on my side, ironically for only one day as I would be flying off to Medan for a volunteer community service program....
Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving at Pular Aur

Holiday update (Trip photo gallery) Ok heres quite a big update covering my weekend trip to Pulau Aur, click on the "show more" at the end of this post to read the full log of the holiday. 17th Mar Friday, the trip to Aur The last & final part of the NAUI Scuba Diver certification is to clock in 5 open water...
Scuba Diving

Off to Pulau Aur!

I will be away this evening all the way till the coming Sunday. Would be Scuba Diving in Pulau Aur, Malaysia as part of my NAUI Scuba diver training. Should be touching down at Marsing around 12 midnight tonight, where its a 3 hour ferry ride to Aur, arriving at 3am. It will be interesting, so as the instructors...
South East Asia

Kuala Lumpur Trip: Return Travel Day

27th Dec 2005 Woke up at 9am, never had a good long sleep of 7 1/2 hours long in a row. Breakfast was the same at the hotel 1st floor café, but had more fruits this time & the buffet closed at 10.30am allowing us to finish breakfast at a rather comfortable pace. Raided the hotel room for a change...
South East Asia

Kuala Lumpur Day Three, Cosmo Themepark, Berjaya, Jalan Bintang

26th Dec 2005 Wokeup at 9am for a relatively late breakfast at the hotel coffeehouse. Its the usual American breakfast for 4 with a moderate spread. Made our way to Berjaya timesquare taking the backlane route we took last night. The size of times square never fail to impress me till now even being my second visit. Not to mention...
South East Asia

Kuala Lumpur Day Two, MERRY CHRISTMAS from Petronas towers

25th Dec 2005- On the way to KL The morning call didn't wake us, so was the phone call from mum. But dad at the door did. Checked out at 8am for breakfast at the themepark hotel happy valley mini cafe before heading to the Cable cars for the connecting bus trip to KL (10.30am). There is a short break...
South East Asia

Kuala Lumpur Genting Themepark Trip Day One

Holiday Trip to Genting and KL, Life Update. The travel journal, for now. Click on Read more at the bottom of the post to read more. Trip to KL, Day 1 23rd Dec 2005- Night time We started off taking 961 to beach road konsortium to catch our direct bus to genting, later do we know we have to take a...
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