Sumo Wrestling has always been one of the interesting things about Japanese culture that I have always wanted to see and experience in person. And so, when I recently came back to Japan with my family this month I tried to book for a ticket to watch an actual match, but it was fully booked for the month. But then, I found out I could instead book for a Sumo Practice Viewing at the sumo stable.
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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! 🙂
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! 🙂
Up on escapecapades.com: this year’s visit to the Pays Basque in France …
with an added review on a Michelin starred restaurant.
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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”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!
My family and I decided to go on a trip to The Maldives for the long weekend holiday. Here are some of the highlights of our trip:
The gorgeous view of the islands from up above:
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| The Maldives look like a beautiful abstract painting from above — couldn’t wait to land on one of those lovely blue dots at the first sight of them! 🙂 |
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