There’s a proverb that goes back as far as the ancient Greeks which suggests that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (*) – and that is particularly true of architecture. Buildings that some of us see as stunning, others see as a waste of space – or worse, a blight on the…
This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. For Saturday, it’s Singapore, and the city-state’s National Orchid Gardens.. We recently had reason to spend a few days in Singapore, on our way to Vietnam, and discovered a great little bonus that is sometimes on offer if you fly with Singapore Airlines – the Singapore…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. The images have all been shots we have taken in, on or of cruise ships in our travels. Most we’ve actually traveled on – but a couple were passing us by (or, in this case, we passed above it!) This is the AIDAbella, moored in Singapore…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. We’ll be featuring pictures we’ve taken of animals in our travels, on four continents. The first is of butterflies feeding on bananas from Asia – in Singapore, and more specifically on Sentosa Island. Sentosa is a resort and theme attraction in Singapore which includes an…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. We featured a photo earlier this week of the Flower Dome at Gardens By The Bay – but to wrap us up, it’s the Cloud Forest, next door. It’s a two acre garden, with cool moist conditions like those in tropical mountain regions between…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Saturday, we are on board a bumboat, near Clarke Quay. Bumboats are small, ferry-like vessels which are a tourist attraction in Singapore.. the name comes from the Dutch boomschuit, or tree boat. Originally boats that ferried people and supplies to and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. Singapore’s built architecture is fascinating … there are pockets of colonial pomp, and stretches of classic Singapore rich people’s housing and brutalist public housing blocks. And then there are the newest structures – aspirational, eschewing all the classic straight lines of the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Thursday, it’s the first of two pictures from the Gardens By The Bay complex – this one, from the ‘Flower Dome’ The complex was launched in 2005, and takes in 100 hectares, in three separate sections .. and was supposed to…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Wednesday, it’s the Sri Mariamman Temple, the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore. We’ve been there twice .. the first time at night in 2010, and then during the day in 2016 (when this image was taken). It’s a temple built to…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Tuesday, it’s the Singapore Supreme Court (old and new). In the picture, you’ll see a building with a cupola (the old Singapore Supreme Court) and a building beside it with a colonnade of columns – the former City Hall. Directly behind them…
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