I'm so looking forward to boarding my Singapore Airlines flight and heading for Rome in the middle of April. We have three tours scheduled in May (Sardinia; Naples and Campania; and Sicily) but first I'll be re-walking a couple of our self-guided walks, starting with the Amalfi Coast (yeh!).
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Celebrating Chinese New Year around SE Asia
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Banyan Tree Samui
Visitors to Koh Samui can ease into this Lunar New Year with a rejuvenating massage and treatment at Banyan Tree Spa. Throughout the month of February, this luxury venue, which includes a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy facility, is offering a 90-minute Purposeful Therapy for Two for 8,888 THB per couple (reduced from 12,000 THB). The promotion also includes one complimentary Wellbeing Sanctuary activity and a 25% discount on selected purchases at The Gallery, an onsite boutique.
For reservations: samui@banyantree.com
Relaxing with a massage treatment at Banyan Tree Spa Samui
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
The historic Norwood Institute, Adelaide
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Norwood Institute, Norwood Parade | Flickr User denisbin |
A Norwood and Stepney Institute was formed in 1855 by a group that met in a schoolroom in Beulah Road, Norwood. Lectures were soon advertised and a library of 200 books organised.
The following year a different group met in Mr Barrow's old chapel in Kensington for a similar purpose and proposed an amalgamation with the other group.
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