A dream cruise back to back to Dubai. The reason to leave and return to Dubai, is they are the closest airport to my UK base of Stansted airport. And a flight time of about seven hours is probably the most I can do in my current state of ill health. I know for sure I can not do more,…
Asia is a winter trips that my husband and I have discussed for our future. Fingers crossed, I will be able to do these. This first one is an Asia trip for a three to five months stay. We would start with a flight to Dubai. The reason for that is to split the journey. And that Emirates flies from…
The around the world trip, something I dream about doing ! I found out that I was getting made redundant in the summer of 2017 and my job would be gone by autumn of 2018. So with my redundancy payment, we had originally decided to take a year out and travel the world. We have never done anything like this…
On a short stop over we stayed in Singapore and decided to visit the National Orchid Garden. The garden is located in the Singapore Botanical Gardens. Three hectares of carefully landscaped slopes provides a setting for over 1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids, with about 600 species and hybrids on display. It is such a beautiful place to visit and I…
We were visiting Sydney for Christmas to stay with relatives and decided to have a stop over in Singapore for a couple of nights. Singapore, an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial center with a tropical climate and multicultural population. Its colonial core centers on the Padang, a cricket field since the 1830's and now flanked by grand…
