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Travel • McMartin's Strawberry Farm, Sunshine Coast (June 2019)

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 A visit to the strawberry farm for some PYO (Pick-your-own) fun during the  Australia winter season has gotta be 1 of the highlights of the holiday! We brought the kids to McMartins Strawberry Farm in Sunshine Coast. They loved the experience (as well as the juicy sweet berries) so much that we return for 2nd round after a day! The price for PYO was A$16 per kilogram when we visited. Do note that the farm is only open during the strawberry harvest season ie, May till October. Get a bowl from the staff and proceed to the patch! I suggest taking your time and walk to the farther end, as most visitors tend to pick the berries at the beginning, as they walked along hence the far end actually had more bigger and redder strawberries! There's no time limit, just take it slow and walk down the patch for more red berries. Budding flowers! Juicy Big Red Strawbies! K-bros got over excited & filled up the bowl in no time! After harvesting enough st...

Travel • Winter Queensland Itinerary (June 2019)

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We traveled to Queensland Australia during the June school holidays. It was a self-drive vacation, covering Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. I'm sharing our  Queensland (June 2019) itinerary and some information links here, detailed blog post to individual attractions and accomodation will be updated along the way ( highlighted yellow ). I hope you'll find the information useful! ♡(∩o∩) Day 1 (Friday) • 6:30am (Local Time) Arrived at Brisbane Int'L Airport after an overnight flight. -We bought data sim card from Optus counter at Arrival hall, it was only A$25 per card with 55GB of data! (Thankful to the travel sharing at  SHC Travel Facebook Page , I read useful information on such affordable data card available in Australia, therefore I did not rent pocket wifi for this trip. Do join the group if you are looking for genuine sharing of travel tips!) -Proceed to collect our car which we rented from  Apex Car Rental . (´∀`)♡ We were all ready to begin our 11 da...

Travel • Pattaya-Bangkok (June 2018)

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We went to Pattaya via Bangkok during the mid-year school holiday. An almost immediate thought that crosses people's mind would be, "huh,Pattaya? Got things for kids meh?" (Translate: Is Pattaya a kids-friendly destination?) Yes, there are aplenty of kids-friendly activities! Not that we had a lot of time to cover them all... Well, we had 5 days in Pattaya! On the 6th day, we were back to Bangkok where we stayed 3 nights...just to satisfy everyone mama's retail therapy needs! *\(^o^)/* Here's what we did! Day 1 •Arrived at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, transferred to a private coach bound for Pattaya, which we pre-booked on Klook  . •Check-in to Mercure Pattaya Ocean Resort. Day 2 •Cartoon Network Amazone Water Park •Dinner at Harborland Pattaya Day 4 We booked a taxi driver for an entire day at THB1000 and visited: •Swiss Sheep Farm •Silverlake Vineyard •Khao Chi Chan Buddha (Buddha Mountain) •Dinner at Centra...