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

Finland & Estonia, Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea The ocean has more often than not, invoked a sense of romance (travel-wise) for me. And for someone who was born and grew up in a part of the world near the equator and in South-East Asia, the northern seas of Europe are often seen as exotic and exciting. Thus, when I was planning a trip to Finland for spring of 2017, I just could not resist including a short sailing trip across the Baltic Sea, just for that personal vanity of checking off another item on my travel bucket list. Besides the bucket list tick, of course I did get to visit Estonia as well and walked on the famed cobblestone streets of Tallinn's Old Town, another item on my bucket list! To be honest, I did not actually get to sail right across a large swathe of the Baltic Sea, but only that tiny fraction from Helsinki to Tallinn across the Gulf of Finland to be be exact. But because the Gulf of Finland is technically classified as the easternmost part of the Baltic Sea,...

Keeping track of continuous changes in travel plans ....... One year into internal border restrictions due to the pandemic and there is still none of the proverbial light at the end of the dark tunnel of cancelled and disrupted travel plans. While previously the rollout of vaccines have been touted as the silver bullet in the fight against the pandemic, the now often-touted phrase is "vaccines ain't silver bullets in the fight against the pandemic". Meanwhile, international travel remains an impossible task. Like many travellers who previously had trips booked in advance and had to rescheduled and then further rescheduled these trips or even cancelled them, I have had my own share of dealing with the logistics and administrative hurdles of doing so and seeking refunds. Thankfully, most of my trips had now been cancelled and in most cases, I have had refunds being credited back to my bank accounts. However, I still have a hotel booking in Bali which was originally booked f...

"The Journey Is the Reward "  - Steve Jobs Jizo statue, Itsukushima, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan (2019)

Time flies....... TanksTravelTales has been hosted on Blogger since Sep 2014. It has been more than 6 years and counting as of today! Blogger is a great site for blogs. I have no doubt many who have used or are still using its services will agree. It's free, it's easy to use and it's a really fun way to explore having your own space in the internet world. But with the growing content development of  TanksTravelTales , we feel that this blog has grown sufficiently to move to its next stage of development, including having its own domain name, more control of its blog and other contents and the ability to better harness SEO to be visible to a wider audience base. With that, we will be gradually migrating from our current Blogger sub-domain to our own domain within the next few months. As visitors to the site, the initial migration will be transparent to you. All articles and posts on this blog will continue to remain active and available and new posts will continue to be pos...