Up on escapecapades.com: A trip to the cozy little town of Litomerice, a few kilometers off Prague, one of the places in Europe where Jose Rizal lived. This is also where he met his life-long friend, Ferdinand Blumentritt. Click on the link for the full story.
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| View of the town square from the Tourist Information Center’s viewing tower |
Enjoy the time travel, and thanks for stopping by! 🙂
I just got back home last weekend. And while still jet-lagged, I managed to finish framing and mounting my dried sunflowers that I brought back from France with extra-special care and painstaking effort.
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| My freshly framed dried sunflowers |
Click and scroll for the whole DIY story…
Continue reading “DIY: Framed Sunflowers”Up on escapecapades.com: the full story of my Great Wall Trek
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| The start of the 5-km trek on the authentic and unrestored portions of the Great Wall at Jinshaling, Chengde |
Cheers and have a good weekend! 🙂
Up on escapecapades: My recent trip to Beijing, trying some craft beer, their famous Peking Duck and of course, visiting the Forbidden City. I have also included some tips and reviews at the bottom of the page.
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| Sitting pretty inside the Forbidden City |
Cheers, and have a good weekend! 🙂
New post on escapecapades.com, featuring my recent trip to Melbourne:
In my more recent travel posts (starting from this post about Melbourne), I shall be including short reviews of restaurants and hotels I’ve been to, to make my travel journals more useful to readers and followers.
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| Fun graffitis everywhere |
From now on, I shall be posting all my travel blogs on escapecapades.com. See you there!
Folks, please allow me to interrupt my series of posts on my New Zealand trip with this Breaking News:
Last night, just before going to bed, I checked on my Instagram and saw a comment from Steve Madden’s IG asking my permission if they could use this picture of mine for marketing purposes:
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| Leg Work for Steve Madden shoes… just hope they don’t photoshop it and put somebody else’s upper body parts on top. 😀 |
I am just sooo flattered! And so excited. I never thought my legs could ever get so famous like this. I guess you could say I’m sort of a model now, and for one of my favorite brands of shoes at that! Nakakalokah! 🙂
Have a good weekend, everyone!
Our family would always visit Europe during the summer. For this year, the opportunity of traveling on the New Air France’s La Première (First Class) flight presented itself right around the time we were planning our trip. This first class cabin was only introduced late last year! We were so happy and looking forward to the experience, especially since it will be the same time as our Fourth Wedding Anniversary. And indeed, it was, just as imagined.
Continue reading “The AirFrance La Première Experience”For my daughter’s birthday this year, I decided to make a lemon cake. I’m very partial to lemon. I just love its clean, sweet smell and tangy acid taste. In French, they would call any sweet stuff with a citrusy flavor, acidulé. I really like this term. It makes the flavor sound even nicer and tempting to taste.
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| My very simple, but very delicious Lemon Pound Cake |
I found this very simple, fuss-free recipe on the internet that I just watched a few hours before the party itself. How very convenient it is nowadays to learn anything at the tip of your fingers and at the convenience of your own home. The internet is really good for this.
Continue reading “Festive Lemon Pound Cake”
ever since i can remember, i have always been on the lookout for painting classes. as you know, i have quite a bit of experience with drawing, as i love doing portraits in charcoal or pencil. but with painting, i always get a bit apprehensive. not only because i find it quite difficult to render color on paper, but also because i’m scared to go in a class where all the other people have already had the skill and experience beforehand. yeah, i hate being judged. especially for my art work. so, do be gentle with me in the comments, now. 🙂
but then, last week, i felt quite lucky to stumble upon this painting school that organizes classes for people who have never ever painted in their lives. and they even offer a discount for this introductory class. what’s more, it’s a mere fifteen-minute walk from where i live, which is just perfect!
Continue reading “Introduction to Painting Class”
