Singapore is in a constant state of change – land being reclaimed from the sea, new areas being built – yet some parts have been deliberately left alone, and so the other weekend we headed off to one of the last rural strongholds – the little island of Pulau Ubin.

With only the possible chance of an afternoon thunderstorm, we decided to head out to another of Singapore’s National Parks (or four) – we’re slowly trying to work our way through all of them!

Chinese New Year is the biggest celebration of the year in Singapore, and Jemima has been enjoying everything going on during the build up in the last few weeks.

For the last 20 years on Boxing Day (this year was the 21st!) we have headed down to one of the fabulous, secluded Gower beaches...

As well as some fantastic zoos (anyone heard of the brilliant Emmen Zoo? No? If you’re ever in the far North East of Holland go check it out), the Netherlands seems to have little ‘Dierenparks’ everywhere – in town centres, in people’s gardens (usually backing onto a tiny canal) – and outside most rural restaurants/coffee shops.

The much loved pocket kite comes most places with us at the moment, and the beautiful weather over the weekend (well at least one day of it) meant that we headed out to a few of our fantastic Gower beaches to have a play!

Mention to anyone that Mummy used to live in the Netherlands and the usual response is ‘I’ve been to Amsterdam’…. not the same place! Jemima’s family have spent a lot of time right up in the north of the Netherlands – the ‘not particularly visited by outside tourists’ Province of Drenthe (famous for cows and hosting the national motorbike TT).

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were on their recent trip to the Far East the same time as we were in Singapore – we couldn’t really turn down the chance to go wave at the future Prince and Princess of Wales (we’re a patriotic little nation) could we?

Singapore is often labelled as concrete and boring, but we’ve always found it anything but, and are still finding fascinating things to do all over this little island.

Jemima is back in Singapore – and loving spending time in a very exotic, very hot big city (a world away from our village back in Wales!) – we’ll be putting up as many of her varied adventures as possible over the next few weeks!

Our second consecutive day of tidally determined beach trips was quite literally 'just down the road'. We decided that we'd head out to Mumbles Lighthouse - the very iconic edge to our village - on the outer of two little islands that make up Mumbles head, both of which are only accessible at low tide.

Living on the Gower Peninsula we are absolutely spoilt for choice on beaches, both within walking distance and slightly further afield. With Daddy back from his travels for a few days, and the sun finally out, we've made the most of the weekend and had a few beach based adventures!

Mummy and Daddy have always camped! We used to run our local Sea Scout group, our local Duke of Edinburgh scheme, our first trip away together was camping in the rainforest – and our honeymoon involved living out of tent whilst working in a dive shop! We had always planned on Jemima enjoying the great outdoors from a tent, but her introduction to camping has been as varied as it’s been fun!!

Jemima is a little girl who loves trains! From waving at tube drivers on the London Underground, to building loops for her train set (with a bit of help from Daddy), to riding on the local miniature railway – she gets terribly excited by things that go CHOO CHOO!

Jemima's had a busy time the last few months! Starting the New Year in Singapore and Malaysia meant she had her first taste of jungle trekking, and proved she has her Mummy’s stomach for boat trips by falling fast asleep on a choppy trip in the S China Sea – bodes well for her future as a water baby!