Day 10: 19 May 2017, Friday In the blink of an eye, the Canadian leg of our trip has come to an end. After a final breakfast with KP, we bade him farewell and thanked him for his great hospitality here in Montréal and companionship at Algonquin Provincial Park. See you back in Singapore in […]
Day 9: 18 May 2017, Thursday It’s our last full day here in Montréal and KP generously gave us some of his time to show us around the city he had been calling home for the past 11 months or so. For breakfast, KP brought us to his favourite dim sum place called Restaurant ChinaTown […]
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North American Sojourn Day 8: Montréal / Quebec City
Day 8: 17 May 2017, Wednesday Today, we drove from Montréal to Quebec City for a day trip. The distance between the two cities is 255km and it took about three hours to get there. It was quite a tiring drive but thankfully, Quebec City was worth it. Quebec City is the capital city of […]
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North American Sojourn Day 7: Ottawa / Parc Oméga / Montréal
Day 7: 16 May 2017, Tuesday After one night in Ottawa, it was time to move off yet again. We checked out of our apartment just after 9am and drove 82km to Parc Oméga, a safari park located roughly in between Ottawa and Montréal. KP had brought his family here before and they enjoyed it, […]
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North American Sojourn Day 6: Algonquin Provincial Park / Ottawa
Day 6: 15 May 2017, Monday This morning, we would be leaving Algonquin Provincial Park for our next destination, Ottawa. However, before that, KP and I found time to go for an early morning run. It was 6 degrees Celsius when we started our run at 7am. We didn’t have any fixed route in mind […]
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North American Sojourn Day 5: Algonquin Provincial Park
Day 5: 14 May 2017, Sunday It was a chilly 5 degrees Celsius when we woke up at around 7am this morning. The weather forecast showed a 30% chance of rain at 10am, 70% at 11am and 90% at noon, so we were eager to get the day started before the rain set in. Our […]
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North American Sojourn Day 4: Toronto / Algonquin Provincial Park
Day 4: 13 May 2017, Saturday This morning, we had a relaxed breakfast in our apartment before checking out at around 10am. I had enjoyed staying at the lovely Airbnb apartment for the past two nights but it was time to move on to our next destination – Algonquin Provincial Park. Located some 267km away […]
Day 3: 12 May 2017, Friday It’s Day 3 of our trip, and we have a full day in Toronto today so we basically went on a walking tour around the city. We set off at about 9:45am. It was a chilly and cloudy day, with the temperature hovering around 11 degrees Celsius. From our […]
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North American Sojourn Day 2: Niagara Falls / Toronto
Day 2: 11 May 2017, Thursday Today, our agenda in the morning was a simple but exciting one – to ride the Hornblower Niagara Cruise to get really up close with the Niagara Falls. For breakfast, we popped by the T.G.I.F. restaurant beside our hotel. It was the typical Western breakfast consisting of eggs, toast, […]
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North American Sojourn Day 1: Singapore / New York / Buffalo / Niagara Falls
NORTH AMERICAN SOJOURN 2017 – THE PLANNING How It All Began In mid 2016, my very good friend, KP, got posted to Montreal, Canada, for work. As he would be there for a year, he asked if I would like to visit him in Montreal sometime in 2017. That was when he would be more […]
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Bali All The Way Day 4: Water Sports / Singapore
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 30 September 2017] Day 4: 28 April 2017, Friday It’s our last day in Bali and we spent the morning doing water sports activities at Tanjung Benoa in the southern part of the island. From our villa, we drove […]
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Bali All The Way Day 3: Snorkelling / Tegenungang Waterfall / Tanah Lot
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 27 September 2017] Day 3: 27 April 2017, Thursday After the high of yesterday’s exploits (literally 3,031m high), it was time to experience some lows (literally) today, as we would be snorkelling in the Bali Sea off the beach […]
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Bali All The Way Day 2: Mt Agung Trek / Jimbaran Bay
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 5 September 2017] Day 2: 26 April 2017, Wednesday Technically, it’s still Day 1 of the trip. After dinner on 25 April 2017, we retreated to our rooms at about 7pm to catch some sleep before heading out again […]
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Bali All The Way Day 1: White Water Rafting / Seminyak
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 9 July 2017] Bali 2017 – How It All Began This April, I visited Bali with two of my friends, KH and AK, and their wives. I’m the odd one out, I know, but after the last Sydney trip, […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 2 July 2017] Day 4: 11 March 2017, Saturday This morning, I woke up experiencing post-Adele concert blues. I spent a good hour reliving the concert by watching the videos clips that I took with my phone. Ahhh, what […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 25 June 2017] Day 3: 10 March 2017, Friday After the chilly weather we had yesterday, it was nice to wake up to blue skies today. We were banking on good weather this morning because we wanted to make […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 18 June 2017] Day 2: 9 March 2017, Thursday This morning, we woke up early because we had a fun-filled, action-packed day ahead of us. After taking our breakfast in the hostel, we left at about 7:30am and walked […]
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Hello Sydney Day 1: Singapore / Sydney / Katoomba
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 11 June 2017] How It All Began This year, I visited Sydney for two special reasons. The first was to celebrate my birthday, and the second was to watch Adele live in concert. Well, make that three reasons, because […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 4 June 2017] This February, I took a short trip to Kuala Lumpur to celebrate mum’s birthday. I had gone to KL as recently as last year but mum and dad haven’t been there for about 10 years, so […]
[The following post is from the archives of my In Search Of Incredible blog, originally published on 23 April 2017] Day 8 – 14 December 2016, Wednesday Rise and shine, it’s our last day in Hokkaido. We would be departing our hotel at 1:30pm to go to the airport, so we had some free and easy […]