TANKS Travel Tales - a travelogue.......

The setting sun in the back drop of the sea that extends into the horizon typically evokes a sense of vastness to me. It makes me realise how small I am in the vast expanse of the sea and the world. Since young, I had often stood on a beach or a jetty and stared right out into the horizon as the sun set, contemplating what life was, is and will be like out there. This photograph was taken at Cottesloe Beach in the western suburb of Perth as the sun sets over the sea. The ship in the distance provided perspective to the overall picture. Setting sun over the sea, Cottesloe Beach, Perth, West Australia, Australia (2018)

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times” Sculpture at a Temple, Gangnam-gu, Seoul,  South  Korea (2011)

Mixing up the travel bookings....... I must admit that there are times when I got my travel bookings all mixed up. Thankfully, most of these mixups occur on relatively minor details like the number of days of a hotel stay. In my most recent trip to Hong Kong just last week, I had booked myself with the wrong hotel, having made the booking just a couple of days before my trip. Perhaps feeling over-confident in myself, I had happily typed the hotel name into my web browser, clicked on the weblink that I believed would direct me to the hotel's booking website, chose the best value accommodation for my period of stay, keyed in my credit card details and double-clicked on that "confirm" button, all without actually checking a second time. It was only when I printed a soft copy of the hotel's email confirmation of my booking that I realised that the said hotel which I had just booked and paid for, is not the one I had wanted to stay in! And to make matters worse, i...

Buildings and their architecture typically tell us much about the history and culture of their cities. In London, I love the many different styles of building architectures that derived from the rich and varied history of the capital city of the United Kingdom. Taking photographs of these beautiful structures as digital mementos of my visits has always been a favourite activity whenever I visited London. During one of my recent visits, I passed by the iconic Harrods Building at Brompton Road. Instead of taking the usual full-frontal photograph of this beautiful building, I decided to add a slightly different  perspective to my photograph and tilted the angle of my shot slightly. The result is a different view of the building and one which I like a lot more compared to the usual front-and-centre composition. Harrods Building, Knightsbridge, London, England, UK (2017)