Showing posts with label Sri Lanka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sri Lanka. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Travel to catch up on...

As you can see, I am yet to bring myself to post with anything close to consistency...Let's just call this a work in process.  This post is just about reminding me of all the travel we seem to be doing and all the posting that I am not.

So places we have been to in the last 12 months that I intend to post about...

Borneo October 2014 - Malaysian Borneo, flying into Kota Kinabalu and then on to Sandakan.  This trip Dad joined us too.  So we all got to spend some time with Poppa while enjoying exploring a new place and attempting to spot as many wild animals as we could.

Following on from Borneo we bounced straight back into life in Singapore again.  Our next lot of flights took us back to Oz for Christmas. Something I might post later about, although as most of the only people who are likely to be reading this know all the goings on I have moved other trips to the top of the list.

Post New Years up until March was very hectic in our lives with school recommencing, United Nations food fair, Libby's 4th birthday and Chinese New Year celebrations.  Then Nana visited and a lot of fun was to be had. Including Steve and I flying away of a short and fun packed trip to ski Niseko in Japan and catch up with some fabulous Aussie friends in the process. Our first trip away, just the two of us, without me being pregnant since we started on the journey of parenthood 8 years ago.
Days after arriving back in Singapore we bid farewell to Nana and I had to start planning what we would need for our next trip.

Sri Lanka- end of March 2015. Flying in and out of Columbo, driving down to Marissa for a few days. Then on to Ella for a few days via Udawalewe National Park for a safari.  Our final long day drive was Ella to Negumbo for a night before heading back to Singapore.  This is the first trip I relinquished control over where we went and how we got there.  We all had fun and survived, although if I was to do it again I would break some of the long drives we did up with staying somewhere in between.  Completely doable with four young children in tow, possibly less of a push with a couple more stops.

We didn't have to wait too long in Singapore before we had another long weekend away planned. This time to Vietnam in April leading into May.  We flew direct to Phu Quoc island from Singapore.  Just a stones throw away from Cambodia.  This holiday was a do not much and enjoy the beach/water as much as possible.

After Phu Quoc, I had a flying visit into Sydney to one of my longest and dearest friends wedding.  I had a great few days catching up with old friends, my Mum and Dad, younger Sister and June (Steve's mum). The only people missing in that catch up were my big Sis and her family.

Hopefully the last travel post that I will need to catch up on will be the latest adventure we have been on.  Siem Reap- a 5 day 4 night jaunt, helping to break up the long long seemingly endless Summer holidays Sophie and Zac have from school.  The other assistance we had in breaking up the holidays were June and Peter stopping in to Singapore for a few nights both on their way to and from their trip to Italy and Greece.

So stay tuned and watch this space, although going on past performance, please don't hold your breath.