Up on escapadecapades, my visit to the beautiful city of Praha and some hotel, bars and restaurants review:
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| The old city bathed in golden early morning light |
Thanks for dropping by and have a lovely weekend! 🙂
Jose Rizal Travels: Litomerice
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! 🙂
DIY: Framed Sunflowers
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”St. Jean de Luz and Biarritz, France
Up on escapecapades.com: this year’s visit to the Pays Basque in France …
with an added review on a Michelin starred restaurant.
Monday Mood: The Sunny Sunflowers
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| We chanced upon some sunflowers growing in the wild on the road side. My mother-in-law made a bouquet with a bunch of other wild flowers. It’s so pretty. |
We have just arrived in France this weekend. On the road from Toulouse to my in-laws’ place, we were greeted by the smiliest, sunniest blooms of rows and never-ending rows of sunflowers. Scroll down for your viewing pleasure…
Continue reading “Monday Mood: The Sunny Sunflowers”Art at Curate, Resorts World Sentosa
Hubby and I decided to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary a bit earlier than usual this year. He told me about this restaurant at Resorts World Sentosa called, Curate. I immediately checked it out and found it interesting.
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| food for thought 🙂 |
They regularly invite Michelin-starred chefs from all over the world for a sampling of their artistic cuisine. This particular weekend, we went for a lunch menu prepared by two-Michelin starred chef, Guy Martin of France. He is quite famous as he has a TV show called, Epicerie fine on TV5Monde (the French cable TV network) that we regularly watch on weekends.
Continue reading “Art at Curate, Resorts World Sentosa”The Great Wall at Jinshaling
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! 🙂
The Beijing Experience
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! 🙂
Monday Mood: Macarons and Mother’s Day in France
Yesterday was Mother’s Day in France. They call it, Fête des meres. I personally prefer having Mother’s Day celebration on this date because it is in France that I became a mother.
Continue reading “Monday Mood: Macarons and Mother’s Day in France”Mother’s Month
In our household, we have two Mother’s Day celebrations — the second Sunday of May, as most of the world know it, and the last Sunday of May, otherwise known as Fête des mères in France. But why limit myself to just two days when I can choose to celebrate Mother’s Day the whole month? And in celebration of Mother’s Month, I am writing this blog to impart some useful tips and talk about my experience on being a mom of four years… whether you like it or not. I rarely ever write about being a mom, so please bear with me.
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| My daughter and I at Federation Square in Melbourne, April 2016 |
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