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! 🙂
Tag: Travels
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! 🙂
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”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! 🙂
In and Around Melbourne
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!
Driving Around Iceland
To the uninitiated, Iceland frightfully sounds a lot like some piece of land filled with a lot of ice. Well, it’s not true at all. There are actually more ice in Greenland (its neighbor country, a bit higher in latitude) than in Iceland. Although, it is true that I specifically went there to see the ice, I went during the summer so I only had the chance to see them on mountaintops and cliffs, and melting on glacial lagoons, thankfully. Yes, glacial lagoon, you read that right!
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| You can see our crazy itinerary on the left side, and our driving path in blue on the map. We have actually spent almost 18 hours on the road, according to Google maps. It didn’t feel like that at all because we had plenty of stopovers at gorgeous sights along the way! 🙂 |
But it was not such a bad trip at all. Contrarily, I would say it was my best trip of all, to date. Iceland is just Amazing with a capital A. It has landscapes that boggle the mind and make you feel like you are in another planet. I mentioned this to my Icelandic friend, whom I visited while I was there, and she said in fact that the landscapes are more amazing in the highlands. Regretfully, we only visited the coastal areas, which have paved roads. We didn’t get a proper vehicle for rough roads and the highlands, unfortunately. She said the landscapes there are quite like the ones on the moon that there are actually astronauts training up there to get a feel of what it would be like on the moon. Is that Amazing or not?!
Read more about my trip to Iceland on escapecapades.com.
Weekend in Maldives
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! 🙂 |
The Best of the Year 2014
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| a well-cherished trip to Ubud, Bali with family and visiting friends from France |
