Blogs from Changi, Singapore, Asia - page 5

So, here we are at Changi Airport, Singapore with about three hours to kill before we can board our on bound flight to Istanbul. Might as well start the travel diary!! We were up early this morning to take the dogs for a nice long walk in the cool of morning before a 30°+ day. It was weird to think that we would be leaving Melbourne in the grip of a heatwave to fly to Istanbul where the forecast is for days between 5 and 8 degrees Celsius!! Definitely a first for us to head to the Northern hemisphere in their winter. Usually we miss several weeks of winter Down Under and head to the Northern hemisphere in their summer. The other weird thing about this holiday has been the long break between finishing work and ... read more

Moscow to Singapore (9 hours; Depart: 4:50 pm Saturday, Arrive: 5:50 am Sunday) You’d think that traveling often would translate into being a savvy traveler. Sometimes, yes. Other times, no. Case in point: in progress right now. When I was booking this trip initially, I thought I was going from Houston to Perth. In that situation, it is faster to go through Singapore. However, when I was in London last week, I found out I needed to go to Brisbane first, then Perth. Without consulting a map, I called the travel agent and asked that she re-ticket me from Singapore to Brisbane instead; keeping the initial HoustonàMoscowàSingapore route. Bad mistake – go look at a map. Wrong side of a massive island continent. While having Thanksgiving dinner with my brother-in-law, I told him of my itinerary. ... read more

I have a bit of time here in Singapore so thought I would tell you about Rhodes. We left Marmaris in Turkey on Thursday afternoon and got a ferry agross to Rhodes were Di had booked Martin and I into the Sheriton for a couple of nights so we could recover from the hard work putting the boat to bed. We artrived in Rhodes and we are so impressed with this old town and its surrounds. the only down side was that the wind was onshore spoiling the beach swimming a bit. But we had a good couple of days and now we have been traveling from Rhodes to Athens, athens to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Singapore and now onto Christchurh and then home. We have not seen rain for the last 3 months and I have ... read more

Day 49 Arrived in Singapore right on time @ 0600 after a long flight from Roma. The seats on this flight felt like ones from an old Dash 8 plane - hard and bloody uncomfortable so sleep was in bits. Decided to walk from T2 to T3 at Changi airport (for those who know Changing this is a reasonable walk). Problem was my directional calculator was a bit off and we ended up walking to the end of T2 then had to come back past where we started again to get to T3. D'oh... Oh well, a 40 minute walk helped kick away the sitting blues....... Straight to the shower place for a well needed refreshing shower then to try and get dry (28 C when we landed and getting steamier). Do some last minute duty ... read more

After 2 failed attempts, I am finally doing it. I'm off to fulfill my childhood dream to STEP on THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA! I want to accomplish this feat so I can move on with scheming new things. It's like a whirlwind since I decided to quit my job. Even before I tendered my resignation I already bought my air ticket to Beijing. It was like a motivation or a deadline that I should leave before then. I know I have the tendency to drag on things even if it is futile in keeping the same. I won't discuss my work-related issues, I have chosen to let go of whatever it was. Another thing that has made me really take this leap of faith now is that I was getting sick a lot since December ... read more