Reading and Roaming
Singapore is a bustling modern city with soaring skyscrapers and mega shopping malls midst a landscape that is lush and lovely and dotted with parks and gardens. We visited two very impressive gardens, Gardens by the Bay and the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Gardens by the Bay Gardens by the Bay opened about three years ago …
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One of the primary purposes of this trip is to visit natural history and science museums to see what they are doing that is innovative and fresh and to spread the word about the California Academy of Sciences. Our first two visits were to the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum and the Science Centre …
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Second Impressions Singapore is a long, long way from Florida! We flew to JFK and then got a flight to Singapore which continues on the same aircraft after a short layover in Frankfurt. Flying time to Frankfurt is six and a half hours, then about 2 hours in the transit lounge and then 12 hours more …
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Book of the Week: O My America! Six Women and their Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler. This is a delightful romp through the 19th century with six middle-aged women, each of whom re-invented herself in the United States and either published a book about her experiences or journaled extensively. Wheeler is …
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