Day 10 - Provence - 01.06.2013 Real holiday begins! We woke up at 5am to prepare ourselves to catch the train from Geneva to Provence. At the train station, we grabbed our takeaway breakfast and a cup of coffee and made our way to the appointed train platform. The only thing we didn't manage to do successfully was our attempt to claim back the VAT for the watch which I purchased the day before. Well, it was obvious rather to forgo getting the refund than to ...

Day 2 - Normandy Now, our body clocks were tuned to the French. We woke up about 7am to prepare for our day trip to Le Mont-Saint-Michel. According to Emma's French colleague, Le Mont-Saint-Michel is one of the iconic must-visit place in France. That got me excited and was looking forward to visiting it. Breakfast was wonderful. I had omelette and a very rich coffee latte to perk up the morning. The bus ride to Le Mont-Saint-Michel was about one half ho...

Day 1 - Normandy After surviving a long 13 hours flight from Singapore to Paris, we finally arrived at our destination at 7am. What we were thankful was that Benji wasn't such a fuss on the plane; in fact, he kinda slept almost throughout the flight except for occasional feeding and playing time. It was quite an enjoyable ride. Today we were mostly on the road. We took a train at the airport and it was about 1pm plus when we finally arrived at Rennes. Thank...

Day 23: Technically, we had about half a day in Nice as our flight was at 235pm. In the morning, we woke up early around 7am and went to the open-air market, Cours Saleya. Whilst the locals were preparing for a brand, new day, we'd be preparing to head home. A feeling of reluctance overcame me and somehow, I wished that the morning would last longer. We went to the cafe near the vicinity of Cours Selaya for breakfast. It was croissant, bread, coffee and oran...

Day 22: Today is the last day of our holidaying. Gosh!! We've been away for three weeks. I miss home very much but at the same time, am also feeling the lackluster to get my "engine" going to face the stockpile of work, amongst many other things to handle in life. Our morning began at 8am. We had MacDonald for breakfast. Then, we took a train and headed towards Monaco Monte-Carlo. The principality of Monte-Carlo was none like other places we've been so far. We...