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NEXT WE STOPPED AT FALLEN LEAF LAKE... a campground and resort for locals and tourists... it has a narrow road in and out and most of the houses were up on the hills overlooking the lake...The road leading into the woods and dock...A mile away from the town...House on top of the hill....Fir trees all...
I was invited to Vivid Sydney last week; the city’s annual festival of light, music and creative ideas. Now seven years running, Vivid Sydney 2015 spans across five precincts where visitors can enjoy the Vivid Light, Vivid Music and Vivid Live programmes through pop-up installations and light shows. Owned...
ANOTHER ONE MORE STOP AT EMERALD BAY ON THE WAY UP NORTH... There was one point where both lakes were visible on each side.... there isn't any barricades whatsoever on the sides..... the driver got to be REALLY good.... One wrong turn on the steering wheel, it will be "Sayonara" there and then.......
STOPPED AT POPE BEACH ON THE WAY UP TO SOUTH LAKE TAHOE... The beach was breathtaking.. water was so clean and clear... and of course, freezing cold too... hahahaa...The Resthouse was the first place we visited once we stepped out of the car..hahahaha..Snowy mountain from afar....Serenity...CLEAR...
UP AND UP THE CAR ASCENDED THE MOUNTAINS.... getting colder and colder every minute...We stopped halfway... the scenery was breathtaking on both sides of the mountains...The ravine was endless... one of my siblings dare not look down....So did I !!hahahaha...
WEEKEND IS HERE!! IT'S TIME TO GO FOR A DAY TRIP TO LAKE TAHOE AFTER ALL THE HARD DAYS' WORK... hahahaa...We started off around 8.30am from the house and stopped by a temple in Folsom called LDS aka Latter Day Saints Temple.Up on a hill...Latter Day Saints Temple...Around the...
FEELING VERY REFRESHED AND ENERGIZED!!We finally started work on this Friday morning, okay....real work this time.. under the hot sun.. it was not so cold now, maybe I have got used to the spring cum summer weather now? Anyway, it is time to get my butt moving... for the past few days, it had been Eat...
In my previous post about Macau, I shared about things to shop, see and eat in Macau Peninsula and this post features a list of places to see and things to eat in Taipa and Cotai. rif and I stayed at Sheraton Macau along the Cotai Strip, and spent our remaining two days exploring the [] The post...
STILL IN A RELAXING MODE... Woke up around 8.30am each morning to the sounds of chirping from the birds... after our breakie in the house, we walked around the ranch... without a cowboy suit and hat though...At the ranch....No animals though...Need to do a lot of gardening here .... When do we ever...
STILL FEELING GROGGY..... Left Ipoh on a busaround midnight,reached KLIA around 3.30am and spent the rest of the night at McDonald.... It was a sleepless night for me, I missed my bed and my blanket... and at 9am, I took four hours flight to Hongkong and thank goodness, it was only a two hours...
MY FIRST MEAL OF THE DAY is normally taken outside.. no homecooked breakfast in my house anymore especially now kids are grown and have left their nests here in Ipoh... I always look forward to having my first meal of the day, the appetite is always "stronger" in the mornings than the evenings...
Macau used to be a “day trip thing for me where I would take the morning ferry from Hong Kong and head back at night after some eating and sightseeing. Last week however, rif and I spent five in Macau where we went sightseeing, shopping and hunting for food places. We spent the first two [...] The...
EARLY NEXT MORNING, WE MADE OUR WAY TO THE AIRPORT... Before we left, we took a "welfie" to commemorate our stay at the apartment... Bye bye Oaks Horizon...Don't know when we will come here again...Thank you for making our stay comfortable and peaceful..hehehee..From the apartment to...
WITH THE ITALIAN FOOD FILLED UP IN OUR TUMMIES, a walk around the lake received our nods of agreement before we finally called it a day... The weather was getting colder and colder by the days and we were very well prepared for it... The ground was still wet...There was a slight drizzle when we were...
ON THE FIFTH AND OUR LAST DAY OF OUR FREE AND EASY TRIP, we went for an Italian meal at Jamie Oliver Restaurant. The day before we went there, we saw a queue right outside the restaurant and I was told that this place is normally crowded every day especially during lunch hour...Knowing that, we went there...
DIM SUM IN CHINATOWN FOR BREAKFAST and Pumpkin Curry Chicken for our dinner! First time I heard of cooking pumpkin in curry paste.. not only it is more healthy, it also enhances the gravy to a thicker level without using any santan or milk... that is definitely a healthy replacement for the creamy...
ON THE FOURTH MORNING IN ADELAIDE, we took around twenty minutes walk to the Chinatown... for two purposes, firstly, to have our Dim Sum breakie and secondly to do some marketing for dinner in the evening... Eating out is not "cheap" at all so we need to balance out our costs... And so here we are... right...
FEELING TIRED AFTER THE DAY TRIP, we didn't want to mess up the kitchen... For dinner, we took a fifteen minutes walk to China Town... it was a cooling evening and we stopped here for our dinner...Star House... Chinese Restaurant!Yes, after the rib racks and German sausages...Chinese food is always a...
FROM JACOB'S CREEK, we were taken to the third and last destination, Hahndorf. I was told that it was also known as German Village. Hahndorf is the most enchanting town of the Adelaide Hills where tourists feeel like we have stepped back in time. This leafy Elm tree-lined Bavarian village...
FROM SEPPELFIELD VINEYARD WE WERE TAKEN TO ANOTHER PLACE NEARBY CALLED JACOB'S CREEK.... Another wine tasting again?? We were ushered in again for some brief tutorial again about wine... The vineyard in front of Jacob's Creek... And the beautiful vineyard along the Adelaide Hills...The weather was...
