Melaka (also known as Malacca) is a tiny waterfront city in Malaysia with a strong Portuguese historical influence. It is a very popular weekend getaway for food exploration and antique shopping. The city is located roughly four hours bus ride … Continue reading Travel: Weekend guide to Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia
Staying unemployed for over two and a half months with no signs of the next ray of light can be very depressive. More so, if you are an expat in a foreign land. You feel trapped. You can’t leave the … Continue reading My daily fight to avoid depression: Part 1 – Mental Engagement
I have had more pressure (from close friends) to write a bachelor’s guide blog for Bangkok than for any other city – for obvious reasons. So thought maybe a family guide would be the best way to start. Bangkok is … Continue reading Budget Travel Tips for Bangkok, with or without family!
Kuala Lumpur is typically our, once a year, under <1000 SGD all costs inclusive, budget, long weekend, family vacation destination. Travel from Singapore by luxurious buses, stay in a 4-star hotel in prime Bukit Bintang area for 3 nights and have … Continue reading Food: Our Seven cuisines in 70 hrs #FoodTrip Kuala Lumpur
The Jalan Alor food street (in Bukit Bintang area) is one of the must go places at Kuala Lumpur – currently ranked 7th most visited city in the world. The food street operates only post-sunset and is teeming with people … Continue reading Food: Six ‘not-so-obvious’ must try dishes at Jalan Alor food street Kuala Lumpur
After food trips to Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur and Ethiopian cuisine in 2017, we rounded off the year with diet trails to Jaipur, Lucknow & Jamshedpur! Great food does enhance a happy mind, so here’s my list of our top ten … Continue reading Food: Jaipur – Our top 10 food experiences
After an exciting, colourful, historical, meeting with friends and a culinary trip to Jaipur, the family ‘caravan’ moved on to Lucknow – a destination chosen only and only to do a food trail! Lucknow is more of a non-vegetarian food … Continue reading Food: Lucknow – Our top 6 food experiences
Visiting one of the world’s premier cities, one of the world’s most visited cities, within budget expenses, is always a challenge. Most of us have dreams of visiting Madrid one day. And yet many of us are deterred by various … Continue reading Travel: Madrid – A budget family itinerary
Not many tourist cities have sprawling mountains, open calm seas and plentiful surrounding islands clubbed together in one location. Add low accommodation costs, cheap seafood, great shopping options, an airport to its own and you have a ‘complete’ holiday tourist … Continue reading Travel: Kota Kinabalu – A budget family itinerary
A trip to Manila is incomplete without a visit to the traditional Legazpi Sunday Market. Various home cooked cuisines, hand made dolls, slippers to cheap priced boxer shorts .. it’s all laid out there. You have everything that you need … Continue reading Food: Legazpi Sunday Market (Manila) in pictures
