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Bishop's Park is located at Fulham, near Putney Bridge train station of District Line. It has a great location due to Thames riverside or waterfront. Lovely tall trees decorate the banks of the river. Such a delight to see this from the opposite side.  On one side of the river, there are plenty of garages for Boats., mostly from colleges. Putney Pier is also located here and can commute all the way to London.  On the other side of the river, you get to see Bishop's Park and Fulham Football Club.  Bishiop's park is long and rectangular and got plenty of places to picnic or sit and relax by the riverside. Ice cream shops, Fish and Chips, Donna's coffee shop, couple of pubs are all situated around. Do take a stroll in the weekend ! Stay safe. 

Hello Friends, Southern ridges is an excellent walking route for lot of reasons... one of them is, mainly for taking selfies with nice back drops. Route: 1. Kent Ridge Park [via Pond or direct canopy walk) : There are some 3 parking lots around the park. I prefer to start the walk from road side of NACLI office as it allows us to do steep climb walk of around 650 meters.  Once you reach the hill, you can either take right side direction to enter the park via road and to the main entrance of the park or take left [Car Park B] and carry out roundabout walk to see the Pond and enter the park after climbing some more stairs. Canopy walk is simple and not long,  you can read through some war time memory posters while walking. If lucky, you can spot some small green snake sometimes. This is also a good picnic spot. 2. Hort Park: You can enter the Hort Park (Back side) and see the glass houses. Enjoy the all around greenery, flowers, colorful plants and decors of Ho...

One of my favourite track for nature walk is taking a walk between Parkland Green [ECP] and Stadium.. it is around 6km and one can finish the walk between 65 min to 80min. Good thing about the starting point is one can have morning coffee at Cheers or Starbucks... the serene view at 7am is so mesmerising and sound of waves encourages your spirits.. on the left hand side, you can see the ocean while walking... it goes on till you reach the Tunnel near Tanjong Rhu. then the walk becomes little view less with some narrow terrain. then, it joins the backside of the Marina Bay golf place and you can listen the chirping sound of birds... You can now see Bay East Gardens visitor center.... you can refresh with water and use the rest rooms and connect again to a T Point... now, you will have to decide to either go rite or left.... right will take you to Stadium area and the left will take you to Marina Barrage through Gardens by the Bay, East. I like Stadium side... ...

None of my friends or colleagues mentioned anything about the Rooftop pool of Hotel Jen. I was pleasantly surprised when my Aussie friend showed me the pic during her stay. Then, i asked for help to see it once before she returns as it is meant only for hotel guests.. but we couldn't do it due to the busy site seeing schedule... I finally managed to spend 10 min before the check out.... To my surprise it was big.. 47 meter long...  and seats along other side... with a bar counter... The location / view is outstanding.. right above the Somerset 313 ... one can see Orchard, Raffles and Marina Bay Sands... It turned out to be a good experience. Soon, I will do a staycation to explore more about Hotel Jen. If someone is spending 200$ rent per day, I think, it is better to choose such a happening location.

When the local friends recommended Dong Pho of District 3., I didn't presume much. Let us hit the place tonite was my only reaction. Little did I expect the heavenly taste of food.  My friend ordered some prawn and noodles. I opted for 5 course vegetarian dinner set with a simple belief that I can taste authentic Vietnamese food in one shot.   http://www.dongphorestaurant. com/ Fresh banana bud salad was the first item. It had crisp banana and tasty noodles mixed with some vegetables. Surprise for me was more from fragrance and the ideal quantity of food.  Second item was assorted steamed dumplings ... they were wrapped under leaves and had different sauce. I have to take advice to find out which dumplings will go better with which sauce !!!  Third item was Hue Style Pancake... stuffed with lot of vegetables and accompanied by some cucumber... this felt heavy finally. By this time, my friend was convinced that vege...

If you have not tried any Indian food other than Parotta or Prata, you basically doesnt know much about south indian food !!! South Indian breakfast is very different...  damn tasty ... It is predominantly consists of 5 items... Idly - Steamed rice cake; Dosa or Thosai - pancake from fermented rice batter; Puri - deep fried wheat / maida bread; medhu vada - deep fried doughnut shaped, made out of urad dal; Pongal - made out of rice, turmeric and some pepper and another variety with rice and moong dal; Upma - thick porridge from semi fried semolina. It comes with lot of side dish... Sambar - vegetable based lentil stew, cooked with tamarind broth; also called as Dal by Malaysians. Chutneys - white coloured coconut chutney, coriander, tomato and mint combination; Also there is one melaga podi or gun power which can be given separately or served as separate item called Podi Idly. This one is damn tasty but little more spicy. Beware while you eat Pongal - it can m...

I was brought down in Chennai, Tamil Nadu where the only season is Summer. There is a bit of dew in Dec/Jan ... but it is mainly hot, hotter and hottest days over there !!! I was looking forward for the heavy winter when I worked at Manchester in 2011/2012.  But I had to take a train to Buxton to feel and enjoy the snow in Feb 2012.  Snow level was decent and I fell in love with the white cover as soon as I stepped out of rail station. I bought a hot coffee and started exploring by foot. Best part of the experience for me was the slippery feeling I had when I was walking over the snow & I definitely slipped down once ! But I ended up enjoying the little pain although.  I also found it difficult to adjust the sun against the white sand / snow... I got some help from my cool shades (sun glass) although.  Why I remembered to write about this is I live in Singapore now and I don't even need to pack my clothes when I go Bali or Ban...