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Singapore Siloso Beach

Siloso 6

Hello!

We just came back from Singapore where we spent the week, since our youngest daughter (getting big now, already 13!) had dental surgery where all her four wisdom teeth came out.

My poor baby girl! She was so brave and we tried to make the best of it, ordering a lot of ice cream from room service (doctor’s order!) and watching movies.

It was monsoon in Singapore as well, but yesterday the rain subsided so that my husband and I got an hour at the beach. We enjoyed the beautiful Siloso beach of Sentosa Island, with a view over the South Asian Sea.

I brought my Canon Powershot and took a couple of pics: just click on a picture to enter the gallery.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and also, thank you for the many kind words last week when I revealed the new title of my memoir Beautiful Affliction: A Memoir of Surviving Heart Disease. I am so happy for each and everyone of you who took the time to tell me you like the new title and your thoughts on this.

Big hug!

♥Lene

 

Beautiful Indonesia

Yesterday, August 17, was Indonesia’s Independence Day, celebrated all over the country.

About a year ago, my husband and I had occasion to visit the place where the Indonesian flag was born: Hotel Majapahit in Surabaya. The days following the Indonesian Declaration of Independence, on August 17 in 1945, the Dutch still raised the Dutch flag on top of the hotel. A couple of Indonesians, offended by this gesture, climbed the roof of Hotel Majapahit, took down the flag and tore off the blue line of the Dutch flag, left the red and the white line and raised the flag again. After that followed the years of the Indonesian National Revolution, until the Dutch acknowledged Indonesia’s Independence in 1949.

The document of Independence was signed by Soekarno and Muhammad Hatta and the airport in Jakarta is named Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in their honor.

I felt I wanted to make a small tribute myself, to the country my family and I are guests in. Here are a few of the photos we have taken on our travels through Indonesia, each of them representing some of the things we love about this country: the ocean and the beaches, the nature, the food, the people and the list goes on…

♥Lene

(Just click on a picture and the gallery will show in a lightbox.)

Paradise

We’ve had wonderful days at the beach here in Phuket, chasing the waves and relaxing in the sand. I brought my small Canon powershot and took some pictures of this paradise and my favorite people. 🙂

Just click on a picture and the gallery will show in a lightbox.

Thanks for stopping by,

Wishing you beautiful days,

♥Lene

 

Backstreets of Jakarta

Yesterday I brought the camera going through Pejaten and Kemang in the south of Jakarta. These small backstreets are only minutes away from the busy main roads, but still they feel like a different world. I almost forget about the crowded streets and imagine myself in a village — the laundry hanging out to dry, the small shop with the living quarters on the second floor, the mangoes ripening in the trees, the school girl walking home, the woman coming back from grocery shopping, the man selling food from his orange cart and of course the motorbikes — everywhere the motorbikes.

♥Lene

(Click on a picture and the gallery will show in a lightbox)

 

Waterlilies in Bali

Waterlilies in Bali.

They speak to me like poetry, their heads tilting toward the sun and their leaves floating effortlessly on the surface. Nearby a waterfall, water cascading down the rocks, bringing music to the words, and a dragonfly gently humming the tune.

♥Lene

(Click on a picture and the gallery will show in a lightbox)