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Orizaba Veracruz

Orizaba Veracruz: One of Mexico’s Most Beautiful Cities

September 29, 2023

It's incredibly easy to fall in love with Orizaba, Veracruz: a pueblo mágico oozing European flair and historical charm.

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  • Have you been? ✈️🌊🇸🇬 Part of the fun of going home to Singapore is flying into Changi Airport! World’s biggest indoor waterfall, rooftop pool, butterfly park, canopy park… it’s all at the Changi Airport. I honestly don’t think there’s another airport more fun than Changi. Much of the fun is concentrated in Jewel, a mall attached to the Singapore Changi Airport just outside arrivals hall in T1. So you actually don’t have to be catching a flight to hang out at Jewel. Seriously there’s so much to see and experience at Changi Airport, I highly recommend getting to the airport early for your flight! 📍Singapore Changi Airport 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Jewel Singapore | Singapore Changi Airport | #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #jewelsingapore #singaporejewel #singaporeairport
  • Have you been? ✈️🌊🇸🇬 Part of the fun of going home to Singapore is flying into Changi Airport! World’s biggest indoor waterfall, rooftop pool, butterfly park, canopy park… it’s all at the Changi Airport. I honestly don’t think there’s another airport more fun than Changi. Much of the fun is concentrated in Jewel, a mall attached to the Singapore Changi Airport just outside arrivals hall in T1. You actually don’t have to be catching a flight to hang out at Jewel. Seriously there’s so much to see and experience at Changi Airport, I highly recommend getting to the airport early for your flight! 📍Singapore Changi Airport 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Jewel Singapore | Singapore Changi Airport | #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #jewelsingapore #changiairport
  • 🚵‍♂️ Add this to your Singapore itinerary! As a Singaporean living abroad, I come home every other year to see my family and have explored so many parts of the country — but biking Marina Bay Loop is hands down one of our favorite things we’ve done in Singapore as a family. We picked up the bikes from City Scoot @Esplanade (as we needed a kids bike) but you can easily rent bikes through apps like Anywheel or HelloRide). The route tales you through Gardens by the Bay and around Marina Barrage but the best view is from the Bay East Garden, where you get a full panorama of the skyline (including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay). 📍Marina Bay Loop Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Biking Marina Bay Loop #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #bikingsingapore
  • 🚵‍♂️ Add this to your Singapore itinerary! We visit Singapore every other year to see family and have explored so many parts of the country — but biking Marina Bay Loop is hands down one of our favorite things we’ve done in Singapore as a family. We picked up the bikes from City Scoot @Esplanade (as we needed a kids bike) but you can easily rent bikes through apps like Anywheel or HelloRide). The route tales you through Gardens by the Bay and around Marina Barrage but the best view is from the Bay East Garden, where you get a full panorama of the skyline (including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay). 📍Marina Bay Loop Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Biking Marina Bay Loop #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #bikingsingapore
  • 🚵‍♂️ Add this to your Singapore itinerary! We visit Singapore every other year to see family and have explored so many parts of the island nation — but biking Marina Bay Loop is hands down one of our favorite things we’ve done in Singapore as a family. We picked up the bikes from City Scoot @Esplanade (as we needed a kids bike) but you can easily rent bikes through apps like Anywheel or HelloRide). The route takes you through Gardens by the Bay and around Marina Barrage but the best view is from the Bay East Garden, where you get a full panorama of the city skyline (including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay). 📍Marina Bay Loop Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Biking Marina Bay Loop #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #bikingsingapore
  • Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
  • One of our favorite experiences in Ethiopia was an incredible cooking class with Mahlet, a born-and-raised Ethiopian who runs @LiyuEthiopianTours with her family. In just a few hours, we laughed, cooked, asked a million questions, and somehow walked away feeling like we understood Ethiopian culture on a deeper level than we ever could by just sightseeing. 🛖 We started by preparing lentils and shiro (a rich chickpea stew), learning about the spices that give Ethiopian food its depth and warmth, and seeing the traditional clay pots they’ve used for generations to cook stews. Everyone jumped in— chopping vegetables, stirring pots, and cooking side by side like we were in a family kitchen. Mahlet explained how many Ethiopians fast over 200 days a year because of their Orthodox Christian faith, and how on Wednesdays and Fridays meat isn’t eaten, which is why Ethiopian cuisine has such an incredible variety of flavorful vegetable stews. It made every dish feel even more meaningful. The highlight for all of us was making injera, the staple of Ethiopian cuisine. It’s a soft, spongy flatbread made from fermented teff, and it’s used as both the plate and the utensil. Mahlet showed us how to carefully drizzle the fermented batter onto an electric injera maker (kind of like a giant crepe pan), and watching it cook was so much fun. We ended with a traditional coffee ceremony, where we all took turns roasting raw coffee beans over charcoal and grinding them by hand. We brewed the coffee the way it’s done in homes all over the country. Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and seeing how deeply it’s woven into daily life made that cup taste even better. Hands down one of those experiences that stays with you and proof that some of the best travel memories are made around a kitchen table 💛 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Addis ababa | Ethiopia travel | Ethiopia with kids | worldschooling in Ethiopia #addisababaethiopia #ethiopiancooking #ethiopiawithkids
  • One of our favorite experiences in Ethiopia was an incredible cooking class with Mahlet, a born-and-raised Ethiopian who runs @LiyuEthiopianTours with her family. In just a few hours, we laughed, cooked, asked a million questions, and somehow walked away feeling like we understood Ethiopian culture on a deeper level than we ever could by just sightseeing. We started by preparing lentils and shiro (a rich chickpea stew), learning about the spices that give Ethiopian food its depth and warmth, and seeing the traditional clay pots they’ve used for generations to cook stews. Everyone jumped in— chopping vegetables, stirring pots, and cooking side by side like we were in a family kitchen. Mahlet explained how many Ethiopians fast over 200 days a year because of their Orthodox Christian faith, and how on Wednesdays and Fridays meat isn’t eaten, which is why Ethiopian cuisine has such an incredible variety of flavorful vegetable stews. It made every dish feel even more meaningful. The highlight for all of us was making injera, the staple of Ethiopian cuisine. It’s a soft, spongy flatbread made from fermented teff, and it’s used as both the plate and the utensil. Mahlet showed us how to carefully drizzle the fermented batter onto an electric injera maker (kind of like a giant crepe pan), and watching it cook was so much fun. We ended with a traditional coffee ceremony, where we all took turns roasting raw coffee beans over charcoal and grinding them by hand. We brewed the coffee the way it’s done in homes all over the country. Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and seeing how deeply it’s woven into daily life made that cup taste even better. Hands down one of those experiences that stays with you and proof that some of the best travel memories are made around a kitchen table 💛 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Addis ababa | Ethiopia travel | Ethiopia with kids | worldschooling in Ethiopia #addisababaethiopia #ethiopiancooking #ethiopiawithkids
  • This is why we became a digital nomad family. 🌎💻🎒 To live life on our own terms. Experiences over things. Memories over money. Time over everything. I’ve seen firsthand how my parents worked so hard their whole lives to provide for us, thinking they would live their lives when they retire. But now they’re too old and frail to travel the world. 😔 That’s why it matters to me so much. We want to build a life, intentionally and together. It means valuing time and connection more than stuff and status. 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Digital nomad family | worldschooling | travel with kids #worldschoolers #digitalnomadfamily
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Have you been? ✈️🌊🇸🇬 Part of the fun of going home to Singapore is flying into Changi Airport! World’s biggest indoor waterfall, rooftop pool, butterfly park, canopy park… it’s all at the Changi Airport. I honestly don’t think there’s another airport more fun than Changi. Much of the fun is concentrated in Jewel, a mall attached to the Singapore Changi Airport just outside arrivals hall in T1. So you actually don’t have to be catching a flight to hang out at Jewel. Seriously there’s so much to see and experience at Changi Airport, I highly recommend getting to the airport early for your flight! 📍Singapore Changi Airport 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Jewel Singapore | Singapore Changi Airport | #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #jewelsingapore #singaporejewel #singaporeairport
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Have you been? ✈️🌊🇸🇬 Part of the fun of going home to Singapore is flying into Changi Airport! World’s biggest indoor waterfall, rooftop pool, butterfly park, canopy park… it’s all at the Changi Airport. I honestly don’t think there’s another airport more fun than Changi. Much of the fun is concentrated in Jewel, a mall attached to the Singapore Changi Airport just outside arrivals hall in T1. You actually don’t have to be catching a flight to hang out at Jewel. Seriously there’s so much to see and experience at Changi Airport, I highly recommend getting to the airport early for your flight! 📍Singapore Changi Airport 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Jewel Singapore | Singapore Changi Airport | #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #jewelsingapore #changiairport
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🚵‍♂️ Add this to your Singapore itinerary! As a Singaporean living abroad, I come home every other year to see my family and have explored so many parts of the country — but biking Marina Bay Loop is hands down one of our favorite things we’ve done in Singapore as a family. We picked up the bikes from City Scoot @Esplanade (as we needed a kids bike) but you can easily rent bikes through apps like Anywheel or HelloRide). The route tales you through Gardens by the Bay and around Marina Barrage but the best view is from the Bay East Garden, where you get a full panorama of the skyline (including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay). 📍Marina Bay Loop Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Biking Marina Bay Loop #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #bikingsingapore
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🚵‍♂️ Add this to your Singapore itinerary! We visit Singapore every other year to see family and have explored so many parts of the country — but biking Marina Bay Loop is hands down one of our favorite things we’ve done in Singapore as a family. We picked up the bikes from City Scoot @Esplanade (as we needed a kids bike) but you can easily rent bikes through apps like Anywheel or HelloRide). The route tales you through Gardens by the Bay and around Marina Barrage but the best view is from the Bay East Garden, where you get a full panorama of the skyline (including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay). 📍Marina Bay Loop Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Biking Marina Bay Loop #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #bikingsingapore
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🚵‍♂️ Add this to your Singapore itinerary! We visit Singapore every other year to see family and have explored so many parts of the island nation — but biking Marina Bay Loop is hands down one of our favorite things we’ve done in Singapore as a family. We picked up the bikes from City Scoot @Esplanade (as we needed a kids bike) but you can easily rent bikes through apps like Anywheel or HelloRide). The route takes you through Gardens by the Bay and around Marina Barrage but the best view is from the Bay East Garden, where you get a full panorama of the city skyline (including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay). 📍Marina Bay Loop Singapore with kids | Visit Singapore | Biking Marina Bay Loop #digitalnomadfamily #singaporewithkids #bikingsingapore
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Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
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Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 from Singapore! It’s been years since I’ve been home during the festive holidays and it feels great to be back. Growing up in Singapore, Chinese New Year was always the most important day of the year for us. We celebrated with family reunion dinners, decorations, festive food, and traditions. I left home to travel the world over 20 years ago but I made it a point to hang on to traditions and share them with my daughter. We’re so excited to be back in Singapore this year to celebrate this special time of the year with my family! 🧧🪭🏮 #chinesenewyear #singaporewithkids #lunarnewyear
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One of our favorite experiences in Ethiopia was an incredible cooking class with Mahlet, a born-and-raised Ethiopian who runs @LiyuEthiopianTours with her family. In just a few hours, we laughed, cooked, asked a million questions, and somehow walked away feeling like we understood Ethiopian culture on a deeper level than we ever could by just sightseeing. 🛖 We started by preparing lentils and shiro (a rich chickpea stew), learning about the spices that give Ethiopian food its depth and warmth, and seeing the traditional clay pots they’ve used for generations to cook stews. Everyone jumped in— chopping vegetables, stirring pots, and cooking side by side like we were in a family kitchen. Mahlet explained how many Ethiopians fast over 200 days a year because of their Orthodox Christian faith, and how on Wednesdays and Fridays meat isn’t eaten, which is why Ethiopian cuisine has such an incredible variety of flavorful vegetable stews. It made every dish feel even more meaningful. The highlight for all of us was making injera, the staple of Ethiopian cuisine. It’s a soft, spongy flatbread made from fermented teff, and it’s used as both the plate and the utensil. Mahlet showed us how to carefully drizzle the fermented batter onto an electric injera maker (kind of like a giant crepe pan), and watching it cook was so much fun. We ended with a traditional coffee ceremony, where we all took turns roasting raw coffee beans over charcoal and grinding them by hand. We brewed the coffee the way it’s done in homes all over the country. Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and seeing how deeply it’s woven into daily life made that cup taste even better. Hands down one of those experiences that stays with you and proof that some of the best travel memories are made around a kitchen table 💛 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Addis ababa | Ethiopia travel | Ethiopia with kids | worldschooling in Ethiopia #addisababaethiopia #ethiopiancooking #ethiopiawithkids
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One of our favorite experiences in Ethiopia was an incredible cooking class with Mahlet, a born-and-raised Ethiopian who runs @LiyuEthiopianTours with her family. In just a few hours, we laughed, cooked, asked a million questions, and somehow walked away feeling like we understood Ethiopian culture on a deeper level than we ever could by just sightseeing. We started by preparing lentils and shiro (a rich chickpea stew), learning about the spices that give Ethiopian food its depth and warmth, and seeing the traditional clay pots they’ve used for generations to cook stews. Everyone jumped in— chopping vegetables, stirring pots, and cooking side by side like we were in a family kitchen. Mahlet explained how many Ethiopians fast over 200 days a year because of their Orthodox Christian faith, and how on Wednesdays and Fridays meat isn’t eaten, which is why Ethiopian cuisine has such an incredible variety of flavorful vegetable stews. It made every dish feel even more meaningful. The highlight for all of us was making injera, the staple of Ethiopian cuisine. It’s a soft, spongy flatbread made from fermented teff, and it’s used as both the plate and the utensil. Mahlet showed us how to carefully drizzle the fermented batter onto an electric injera maker (kind of like a giant crepe pan), and watching it cook was so much fun. We ended with a traditional coffee ceremony, where we all took turns roasting raw coffee beans over charcoal and grinding them by hand. We brewed the coffee the way it’s done in homes all over the country. Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and seeing how deeply it’s woven into daily life made that cup taste even better. Hands down one of those experiences that stays with you and proof that some of the best travel memories are made around a kitchen table 💛 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Addis ababa | Ethiopia travel | Ethiopia with kids | worldschooling in Ethiopia #addisababaethiopia #ethiopiancooking #ethiopiawithkids
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This is why we became a digital nomad family. 🌎💻🎒 To live life on our own terms. Experiences over things. Memories over money. Time over everything. I’ve seen firsthand how my parents worked so hard their whole lives to provide for us, thinking they would live their lives when they retire. But now they’re too old and frail to travel the world. 😔 That’s why it matters to me so much. We want to build a life, intentionally and together. It means valuing time and connection more than stuff and status. 👋Hi! I’m Nellie, a travel writer and adventurous mum. I share all I’ve learned about digital nomad family travel here. So glad you’re here! 🌏 Digital nomad family | worldschooling | travel with kids #worldschoolers #digitalnomadfamily
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