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Touring Asia & Australia at the Shanghai World Expo

Walter — Sun, 30 May 2010 00:04:00 +0000

After visiting the various country pavillions in the European and American zones of the Shanghai World Expo, we focused our attention on the regions closer to home. Due to the shortage of time, we could only enter the Singapore pavillion as the queues to most of the Asian pavillions were rather formidable. However, I did […]

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Snowy Sensations

Walter — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:45:00 +0000

One of the reasons why we were so thickly dressed in Melbourne was because my son Ethan wanted to see snow. And see snow we did (well some snow since Spring plus global warming made quick work of alpine icicles). Waking up at the ungodly hour of about 4.45 am, we took a day trip […]

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Cuddly Koalas, Sassy Seagulls and Perky Penguins

Walter — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

One of the day trips which we took recently at Melbourne brought us to Philip Island, which is one of Australia’s most well known penguin lookout. En route to the nursing grounds of those cute tuxedo-ed birds, we stopped by a koala conservatory and had a glance at an island full of seals (supposedly). While […]

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Farming Fun at Warrook

Walter — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:44:00 +0000

Regular readers of this blog would probably know by now that my kid Ethan loves the rural life. This was why we had to make a farm stop during our recent Melbourne trip, at the widely acclaimed Warrook Cattle Farm. A charming 100 year old homestead located South East from Melbourne City, the rural attraction […]

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Healsville Sanctuary – a Natural Respite

Walter — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:50:00 +0000

One of our first stops recently en route to Melbourne was Healesville Sanctuary, an open concept reserve for Australia’s indigenous wildlife located just off the picturesque Yarra Valley area. While it wasn’t quite as fabulous as our own Singapore Zoo and the prices of the tickets were rather steep at A$23 per adult (good thing […]

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Off to Melbourne!

Walter — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:06:00 +0000

Am taking a break in the beautiful state of Melbourne in Australia for the next week or so with my wife and kid. Our itinerary is likely to have lots of koalas, kangaroos, wombats, penguins and all things child friendly. Have a great week all!

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