This year we’ll be cruising the Mediterranean and doing our first trip to Europe. We’ll be sailing on the Royal Princess with some time in Barcelona and Rome. Our itinerary looks great – it will be a busy schedule with only 3 sea days, August 30 – Fly Sydney –…
Yokahama
Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:08:45 +0000 Jayne http://www.bucketlisttraveller.com/?p=127 Saturday 27th September. Today we arrived back at Yokahama at 5.30am. At the port were a bride and groom getting their photographs taken so we watched them over breakfast while the ship was docking. A lot of passengers left the ship today, mostly…
Sakiaminato
Tuesday we were in the area which is built around two large lakes. The lakes are quite large and the whole area was very scenic. We started out at 7.30 and drove to the Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi. As well as a great art collection, the museum has…
1942 Battlefield tour of Singapore
Yesterday afternoon we did a 3.5 hour tour on the battlfields of Singapore. It took us to some historical sites that are not open to the general public including going down into the underground ‘Battle Box” on Fort Canning Hill where the Allied command ran the war. The battle box…
Asian Museum
The afternoon was spent in the Asian museum and the colonial district. This is where Raffles first landed. Brilliant colonial buildings, Parliament and the Raffles Hotel. Its hard to describe the quality and the extreme wealth that was around to have them constructed. There current condition is first class. We…