• Instagram
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Escapecapades

Tasteful travel tales

Menu
Search
  • Home
  • Travels
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Europe
    • North America
    • Oceania
  • My Online Profile
  • My Paintings
  • Reviews
  • Contact
Close Menu
  • El Nido, Palawan — Island Paradise!

    by Rio

    Hey everyone! How are you all doing?! I’ve realized, I haven’t posted anything here in more than a year! So much have happened even though time seems to have really slowed down during these crazy times of COVID. I have been taking a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence, for one. And I’ve been so, so busy since then. But I still continued to do...

    February 14, 2022
    Comments 0
    Asia, beach, featured, highlight, Travels
  • Venice and Burano 2019

    by Rio

    With the recent outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve been seeing a lot of pictures and videos of Italy circulating all over social media. As we all know, the whole country is in lockdown, same as here in France, and most other countries with cases of Covid-19. I see a lot of inspiring videos on how the Italians are dealing with its current state...

    March 21, 2020
    Comments 3
    Europe, featured, Travels
  • New York 2017

    by Rio

    One of the highlights of our Summer Holiday Trip this year, was revisiting New York. Last time I visited the place was in 2013, just before moving back to Singapore. It’s been four years since then, and my feelings toward the place hadn’t changed a bit! I still super loved it! I fell in-love with New York in the fake spring of March 2013, and...

    August 12, 2017
    Comments 0
    featured, North America, Travels
  • Hanami, Mt Fuji, Sumo Practice Viewing, and More (Japan 2017)

    by Rio

    It has always been my long-time frustration to visit Japan during the Cherry Blossom Season, otherwise known as “Hanami“. Sakura is one of the prettiest flowers I have ever known. It is especially beautiful because its blossoming marks the start of Spring. There is nothing quite like seeing all the plants blossoming back to life after the dead of winter. Here are some of...

    April 14, 2017
    Comments 8
    Asia, featured, Travels
  • Bewitching Siquijor

    by Rio

    Bewitching, beautiful beaches of Siquijor and more...

    March 4, 2017
    Comments 8
    Asia, beach, featured, Travels
  • New Zealand

    by Rio

    New Zealand for Christmas is not a bad idea at all, especially if you don't mind having an out-of-the-usual, warm holiday season instead of the cliché-ish cold. It is very suitable for adventure trips and surprisingly enough, it is also family-friendly. What's even more special about the yuletide season in New Zealand is that you get to experience the new year way ahead of...

    November 26, 2016
    Comments 3
    featured, Oceania, Travels
  • Rocamadour, France

    by Rio

    During the time I was living in France, I had some time to explore the interesting places around the region of the Pyrénées. This is the gorgeous ice-capped mountain range that I could see clearly during the autumn months from the lovely balcony of our apartment in Toulouse. It separates the south of France from the north-east of Spain, which is what is known as Catalunya....

    November 6, 2016
    Comments 3
    Europe, featured, Travels
  • Iceland – the Land of Fire and Ice

    by Rio

    To date, I would say that Iceland is the best place I have ever visited in all my traveling life. From that moment in the plane where we were greeted with the fiercest, most fiery sunset at midnight, I knew instantly that I would be treated to some of the most magnificent, out-of-this-world landscapes that I will ever see in my life. We went...

    September 17, 2016
    Comments 4
    Europe, featured, highlight, Travels
  • The Beijing Experience

    by Rio

    My first impression of Beijing was unexpectedly nice. I was a bit wary to visit this city because of what people tell me — that it is very polluted, smoggy and that the people are rude. I was lucky to get there without so much smog and pollution, though. And I found most of the people quite nice and not rude at all, except maybe...

    June 26, 2016
    Comment 1
    Asia, Reviews, Travels, Uncategorized
  • A Taste of Tuscany Part 1 – Firenze

    by Rio

    Ever since the movie, Under the Tuscan Sun, all the women I know dream of visiting this gorgeous Italian region, at least once their lives. I was not an exception. You can imagine how thrilled I was when an opportunity to visit this place presented itself a couple of summers ago. Hubby and I followed the suggestion of this french guidebook that was provided by the french travel agency...

    March 26, 2016
    Comments 0
    Europe, featured, Travels, Tuscany

Highlights

El Nido, Palawan — Island Paradise!

by Rio

Hey everyone! How are you all doing?! I’ve realized, I haven’t posted anything here in more than a year! So much have happened even though time seems to have really slowed down during these crazy times of COVID. I have been taking a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence, for one. And I’ve been so, so busy since then. But I still continued to do watercolor (see my other web site: springfugue.com, for details). And I also still play the piano every day. I try. I’d like to think I’ve improved a lot. And just now, I realized my classes for this week were postponed. So, now, I got some free time for other chores, like updating this web site! 🙂 Also, I have a new domain names for this web site: riosebastian.com and escapecapades.fr. But now, enough with the updates, I meant to write about my last pre-COVID travel, in the Philippines. And it was in the paradise called, El Nido, Palawan. We also passed by HongKong, actually, on the way to the Philippines...

February 14, 2022
Comments 0
Asia, beach, featured, highlight, Travels

Paris Without the Tourists

by Rio

This year has been a real special year. We are in the last quarter now but there still doesn’t seem to be any clear ending to this situation that we are dealt with. Here in France, the situation started to get better during the confinement period. People were forced to stay in their houses to avoid spreading the virus. It worked, but then people started moving out again… a little bit too much. Right now, the situation is not so great. But during that tiny bit of gap where the situation looked like it was getting better, my husband and I decided to take advantage of it and do some traveling within the country. I have always wanted to do all the tourist things without having to deal with actual tourists getting in the way. And so, we did all the touristy things in Paris (for the second time around) that we could possibly do. And I must warn you, this post is full of photo-ops of myself posing all over Paris. It’s not...

September 28, 2020
Comments 2
Europe, featured, highlight, Travels

London 2018

by Rio

Last year in London -- seeing London again after a decade to watch Hamilton, visit Notting Hill, shopping, museums and some food trip...

September 17, 2019
Comments 0
Europe, highlight, Travels

About the Author

Rio

Rio

Art and travel, painting and photography -- these are the things I most enjoy writing about.

View Full Profile →

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 74 other followers

Archives

  • February 2022 (1)
  • September 2020 (1)
  • March 2020 (1)
  • September 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)
  • May 2019 (1)
  • November 2018 (1)
  • October 2017 (1)
  • August 2017 (1)
  • July 2017 (1)
  • June 2017 (1)
  • April 2017 (1)
  • March 2017 (1)
  • December 2016 (2)
  • November 2016 (3)
  • October 2016 (1)
  • September 2016 (2)
  • August 2016 (2)
  • July 2016 (2)
  • June 2016 (1)
  • May 2016 (3)
  • April 2016 (1)
  • March 2016 (2)
  • February 2016 (7)
Follow Escapecapades on WordPress.com

Recent Comments

Rio on Paris Without the Tourist…
fauquetmichel on Paris Without the Tourist…
Rio on Venice and Burano 2019
fauquetmichel on Venice and Burano 2019
fauquetmichel on Venice and Burano 2019

Category Cloud

Africa Asia beach Europe featured highlight Jose Rizal North America Oceania Reviews Travels Tuscany Uncategorized

My Random Snaps

IMG_6298
DSC_0744
DSC_0863
DSC_1461
DSC_0318
Bamboo and Sakura Trees
Point your camera up when shooting at Arashiyama Bamboo Forest to not include the crazy crowd in the frame
DSC_0434
DSC_0603
Saint Emilion, France
Saint Emilion, France
guggenheim3
DSC_0184
IMG_7013
DSC_0730
DSC_0694
DSC_0472
Having a refreshment at Cape Otway
Having a refreshment at Cape Otway
IMG_6972
DSC_0251
DSC_0380

"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."

Ella Maillart

Recent Posts

Asia, beach, featured, highlight, Travels

El Nido, Palawan — Island Paradise!

Hey everyone! How are you all doing?! I’ve realized, I haven’t posted anything here in more than a year! So much have happened even though time seems to have...

February 14, 2022
Comments 0
Europe, featured, highlight, Travels

Paris Without the Tourists

This year has been a real special year. We are in the last quarter now but there still doesn’t seem to be any clear ending to this situation that...

September 28, 2020
Comments 2
Europe, featured, Travels

Venice and Burano 2019

With the recent outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve been seeing a lot of pictures and videos of Italy circulating all over social media. As we all know, the...

March 21, 2020
Comments 3
Europe, highlight, Travels

London 2018

Last year in London -- seeing London again after a decade to watch Hamilton, visit Notting Hill, shopping, museums and some food trip...

September 17, 2019
Comments 0
Europe, featured, highlight, Travels

Keukenhof

Rows and rows of endless fields of Tulips in every size, shape and color... these flowers will always have a special place in my heart, being my flower of...

July 28, 2019
Comments 2

Tasteful travel tales

Follow Us

  • Instagram
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Follow Following
    • Escapecapades
    • Join 74 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Escapecapades
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...