Day 3: 10 March 2021, Wednesday Woke up today a year older, but I didn’t feel any wiser for that matter. I tell you, birthdays are overrated. Nevertheless, it was still nice to be able to celebrate it while on vacation with my loved ones. In fact, I had some of my most memorable birthdays […]
Month: March 2021
Day 2: 9 March 2021, Tuesday After a restful night’s sleep, we woke up at around 8am on the second day. The feeling of drawing the curtains and being greeted by the wide, open sea was just wonderful. It was a beautiful day, with wispy clouds in the sky and the endless ocean stretching as […]
Day 1: 8 March 2021, Monday After three weeks of anticipation, the day had finally arrived. We booked a Grab car and reached Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore (MBCCS) at 2:20pm. The ship would only sail at 8:00pm but we wanted to maximise our time onboard, so we selected a 3:00pm check-in timeslot. I think […]
How It All Began When the Singapore government first announced last October that two cruise lines had been given the green light to offer “cruises to nowhere” from Singapore starting in November 2020, I thought there was no way I would go on board a cruise ship with thousands of others and risk contracting Covid-19. […]
Day 6: 20 November 2007, Tuesday For our sixth day in New Zealand, we headed north from Rotorua to Paihia, the main tourist town in the Bay of Islands. It was a long journey of over 450km and about six hours of driving. It was late afternoon by the time we checked in to our […]