Here’s a nostalgic reflection on our longest family road trip to our cherished neighbor, Malaysia, during the June school holidays. We spent months planning this family adventure, and it truly felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Our kids loved it so much that we might make road trips a regular occurrence, as they are much easier…
This is the 2nd part of our road trip in Japan and you may click here for the 1st part. Day 7 (Shizuoka – Nippondaira Hotel) We set our course for the Shizuoka prefecture, making our way to the picturesque Makaino Farm Resort. Here, the kids relished the opportunity to feed and ride horses, learn…
A throwback to our much-anticipated road trip with our extended family felt like a long-awaited reunion after the trials of the Covid era. As 2023 unfolded, it seemed that travel was on everyone’s agenda, with “revenge travel” plans in full swing. The prospect of returning to Japan, a place we hadn’t visited since 2019 when…
After our last day trip to Desaru in April where we went to the Desaru Fruit Farm and beach, we wanted to have more time to explore this region and will make use of September school holiday to do so. We went in via the causeway to our favourite breakfast place Tea Garden at Mount…
As we slowly move off from Gold Coast and head up north towards Sunshine Coast, we were looking forward to the last leg of our road trip which started from Brisbane. We will be driving to our next airbnb – Laura’s Cottage located at Hunchy near Montville which is a little town in the Sunshine…
As we continued our journey out of Brisbane City (Road Trip Part 1), we begun our warm up treks within Tamborine National Park. We had been training our kids in the various hiking trails in Singapore for the past one year to condition them to at least be able to hike for an hour or…
We have been preparing for this road trip through driving up north numerous times since last year (click here for our Malaysia road trips) to make sure our kids get accustomed to life on the road before we embark on this two weeks road trip in Australia. Its actually the first time we took a…
We have been driving up to Malaysia pretty frequently since last Sept as we were getting bored of our small city state during the pandemic period where we were literally trapped in Singapore for more than 2 years. Not to forget that our exchange rate is currently hovering around 1SGD to RM3.30 to RM3.40 which…
This is our second road trip during the December school holidays as we want to gradually increase the distance and days to make the kids slowly get accustomed to life on the road. This time round we spend quite a bit of time driving on the North South Expressway where you see all the nice…
This will be our new Travelogue series for the Minimalist in the City household where are targeting to do a series of road trips to cover all the 11 states of Western Malaysia or possibly cross the Thai border in the near future. As our kids are finally old enough at age 8 (Ally) and…