There were two things on our agenda today – visit Himeji Castle and shopping at Den Den Town. However we left our apartment relatively late and after spending more than 20 minutes exchanging our rail passes at Shinosaka station, we could only catch the 12 noon train to Himeji. ThankfullyContinue Reading

Some distinctive features one can almost immediately observe about Osaka – its orderly gridlike road network, the number of cyclists on the road and the love for shopping streets which can be identified by the ‘bashi suji’ in their names. Our first stop for the morning is the Kuromon market.Continue Reading

It has been ages since I blogged about my travels. In 2013, I extended my work trip to Korea, then we went for a short family trip to Bali again. In 2014, we took a family vacation to Tokyo after 10 years and I totally fell in love with theContinue Reading

As expected, we could hardly get out of bed this morning and had to miss our daily breakfast. As such, we opted to use our lunch vouchers and had our first meal of the day at a classily designed Italian restaurant called Bene. We were its first customers for the dayContinue Reading

So the day arrived for our family vacation to Macao – Hong Kong. We would meet my brother and his wife at HK since they were flying in from KL. It was baby Benjamin’s virgin flight so as with all others, I had to do a pseudo take off, landingContinue Reading

Today would be our last day in India. While  I would have preferred an extra day or two to head further south to visit Ooty, a popular hill station in Tamil Nadu, my body was already breaking down from both my virus made worse by the less than sanitised water supply. Although I only drank bottledContinue Reading