A Few Days In Singapore

When I returned from New Zealand, I had booked a free two hour tour of the city, as I thought I would not be returning here ever. But as it turned out I did come back to the city at the beginning of this year.

This time I stayed for one night in an amazing hotel which I already did a post about. There was enough time to relax and walk around the city and see all the wonderful buildings. I was here with my friend Arlene and it was the tail end of our trip which had taken us to Malaysia and Indonesian.

I had booked us for afternoon tea in The Fullerton Bay Hotel which was quite stunning and the afternoon tea was also good. In the evening we walked around the area with Marina Bay Sands Hotel in the background. For me seeing Singapore at night is the best and I was in awe of the buildings in this area.

The next day we jumped on one of these tour buses just to see more parts of the city, then we returned to our hotel, I met up with the mother of one the children who had been in my class 5 or 6 years ago. It was great to see Mariette and of course her daughter Jamie. I had seen them both last when we visited Hong Kong.

We hung out at the hotel for a while longer and headed to the airport for our very late flight back to Zurich. It was a lovely end to our fab holiday.


Hope you all have a great weekend

March Reading List

I am rather behind of posting what I have been reading, so here is the list for March. There are three book photos missing for some reason. Usually I try to take a photo of all the books I have read as I put them on Bookstagram or Litsy.

Last Letter from Istanbul by Lucy Foley
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (no photo)
The Kingdom of Copper by S A Chakraborty
The Sisters of Winter Wood by Rena Rossner (no photo)
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
The Alice Network by Alice Quinn
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The House of Birds and Butterflies by Cressida McLaughlin
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (no photo)
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman

So 13 books and all by women writers as in March it was International Women's Day so I usually try to read only women writers.

My favourite was The Kingdom of Copper which is the second book in The Daevabad Trilogy. Also I really liked Wild Fire which was the last in the Shetland series. Also a great TV series too.
The Burning Page is also part of a series The Invisible Library which I am really enjoying.

Hope you are all reading some good books

Lade Braes Walk, St.Andrews

We did a lovely walk called Lade Braes while we were in St.Andrews before my mother had to go to the dentist. It was a walk I had not done for a very, very long time.

We did not do the full walk but it was still nice to see parts of St.Andrews that I hadn't seen for many years. We started the walk at Cockshaugh Park and this had memories for me as my primary school sport day was held here every year. We walked alongside the Kinness Burn for part of the way and we saw lots of lovely Bluebells, I think it may become my favourite flower now.

It was busy with many people walking there dogs and we saw a school class out on a trip. Alessio enjoyed himself too, as he prefers walks in the nature as opposed to walking in cities.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

Dean Village, Edinburgh

The spring school holidays are finished and we are both back to work and school, for the second week of the holidays we went back to Scotland.

It had been a really long time since we have been to Scotland in fact Christmas 2017, so we were well overdue a visit.

I had planned lots of things to do and see for this week and a few days, one of them being a trip to the capital Edinburgh.

I wanted to visit Dean Village which is a part of Edinburgh as I had seen lots of lovely photos on Instagram. It did not disappoint at all, lovely buildings, houses, and views. The only thing was that it is a small area and did not take long to see. Of course we might have missed out part of the area, not sure. There were lots of other people wondering around too. it has the river Leith flowing through and it is possible to walk all the way to Leith. My father and I think we might try that walk on another visit.

We did lots more on our visit but I will post that another time. Now at home there are some changes going on. Alessio is changing his room to the spare one as it is a bit bigger, he has chosen a new bed, furniture and curtains. The walls are getting painted too, I got rid of lots of stuff and some of mine too from the spare room. It is amazing how much stuff has been collected over the years. It felt good to get rid of it all. Hopefully by the end of May his room will be finished.

Happy Weekend