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Trip to Singapore – Part 2

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

…. continued from Part 1.
Singapore Sling
Officially opened in March 2009, the Singapore Flyer is currently the world’s tallest Ferris wheel.  Described as an observation wheel with a diameter of 150 meters (492 feet), it reaches 42 stories high, with a total height of 165 meters (541 feet).
 
Each of the 28 air-conditioned capsules is capable of [...]

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Trip to Singapore – Part 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »

This is a multi-part blog post about our short 4 day trip this summer to Singapore from August 10-13, 2009.
Singapore is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, lying 137 kilometers (85 miles) north of the equator.  At 710.2 km2 (274.2 sq mi), Singapore is the smallest nation in Southeast [...]

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Expedia’s Best and Worse Tourists

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on July 12, 2009 | 9 Comments »

My last blog post was about the Best Cities to Live.  But what about the people who visit these cities?  A study by travel company Expedia asked 4,500 hotels worldwide to rank tourists on their behavior.

As in the past 2 years, the hoteliers worldwide named the Japanese as the world’s best tourists.  They were ranked [...]

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Trip to Bali – Part 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Bali is an island in Indonesia, a very popular tourist destination.  With a population of over 3 million, it is approximately 8 degrees south of the equator.  East to west, the island is about 153 km (95 mi) wide and spans about 112 km (69 mi) north to south.
Flying Japan Airlines (JAL), it took about [...]

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Tokyo Dome

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Tokyo Dome City is a leisure complex in central Tokyo consisting of the Tokyo Dome stadium, an amusement park, the LaQua spa, a variety of shops and restaurants and the Tokyo Dome Hotel.  It is conveniently located in central Tokyo, with several subway lines and stations (Suidobashi, Korakuen and Kasuga stations).

Tokyo Dome [...]

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Hotel living in Tokyo

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

After 3 weeks, I am slowly settling in Tokyo – as much as you can settle in living in a hotel room. In this post, I thought I would share with you my temporary living (6 weeks) until we settle in to our permanent housing in January 2008.
I am currently staying at Royal Park [...]

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