Chope a seat on the Singapore food train!
“If we don’t get to the hawker centre by 12, can you chope some seats for us?” Chope, derived from chop, is slang for reserving a seat, often witnessed at a hawker centre where Singaporeans leave an...
View ArticleDe-coding the Bento. Tokyo. Japan.
Almost everyone has heard of or been to the Park Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo, made famous by the cult indie movie Lost in Translation. Kozue, the Japanese restaurant on the 41st floor has a delightful view...
View ArticleRose red city, half as old as time. Petra. A photo-journey.
Ah Petra, gobsmackingly magnificent, architecturally alluring, haunting and pink! Described by UNESCO as ‘one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage‘, as it features in...
View ArticleIndulge in the quiet side of the Côte d’Azur. Plage d’Èze.
The tiny village of Eze on the Côte d’Azur boasts of a quiet sliver of a pebble beach, with clear, bright blue waters. Eze, between Nice and Monaco is far from the glitzy beaches of the French Riviera...
View ArticleMagnifique Provence! Aix-en-Provence to Moustier-Ste-Marie.
In 2011 my sister and I spent the summer in France that included 5 glorious days in the South. We split out time between the Côte d’Azur and Provence with 3 nights in Nice with 2 in Aix en Provence...
View ArticleMagnifique Provence! St Rémy de Provence & Avignon.
After our first day in Provence, driving to the idyllic village of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie through the Gorges du Verdon from Aix [read here]; we decided to go west on the second day to the City of...
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