After tonnes of international texts, agreeing to meet up with numerous people, I managed to get a definite YES into the F1. Jana and I trekked to Gate 2 where we sat and waited for Dominic to give us passes in. As we waited a really lovely guy came up to us and gave us 2 day passes :) so sweet, but alas we couldn't enter through that gate, we had to go back to gate 7. so we waited for Dom. He came out waving shiny PIT LANE passes.... amazing. We went into the pits and he took us directly [View Full Entry]

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So we got to Singapore on time and the flight was better than expected it to be. lots of leg space for your legs even place under seat infront of you too strech... the meals were nothing special but alirght. but wecould get appels abd water all night and we got a snack with mentos and choclate and stuff for the night as well which was really nice. service and entertainment were very good and we got other usefull stuff as well... all in all was the flight way better than i expected it to be so i could get lots [View Full Entry]

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FORMULA ONE DAY ONE RED BULL RACING PARTY Byron picked me up with Dio, and we headed to Edmunds house to have pre drinks (some wine and doritos, perfect model diet) As Ed drove us all in his van to Sentosa, we sung songs and all go a little excited about the party ahead. On the way to Wavefront I saw Leko, and bounded up to him, over excited i knocked him over. a couple of scrapes and bruises on both of us, we dusted ourselves off and headed towards the crowd. Getting into the party was no hassle, unlike expected [View Full Entry]

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Llegamos muy pronto por la mañana, ya estábamos muertos de tantos días levantándonos muy pronto y no parar de visitas a ciudades, eran ya 3 países en 3 días, así que comenzamos dejando las cosas en el hostal que estaba en “little india”. Es una parte famosa de la ciudad de Singapur, es un barrio indio muy recargado y muchas tiendas. No se parecía mucho a la India que yo conocí y desde luego nos dimos una vuelta por la zona pero no merecía mucho la pena, aunque venga en todas las guías como obligatorias a visitar. Desde ahí nos fuimos [View Full Entry]

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Week 3, I spent the last 5 days at Laura's house. we ate our way through practically every good restaurant in Singapore. I feel like little miss piggy now! She discovered (after staying at this place for months on end) that there's a steam room right near the main pool (there are 6 pools in her dad's apartment complex) So we spent every day in there, willing ourselves to be as thin as Kate Moss... jks I did forget to tell my new roomate Jana, that I wasn't going to be home for the next few days (it really was a [View Full Entry]

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In between Borneo and Java I thought I'd stop over for a couple of days in Sunny Singapore. I stayed at the Cozy Corners Backpackers where I usually stay because its about the cheapest place in town. I've been going there for five years now and it hasn't changed one jot in that whole time, from the broken tap to the soccer flags on the wall. Because its Singapore there are also lots of warning signs posted everywhere about what you're not allowed to do, from spending too long on the internet to downloading illegal material to washing your clothes(!). There's [View Full Entry]

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Much to my regret, most of my journeys seem to start with a flight. This one was a little different. It started with three flights and a boat ride. On Friday, Cisca and I sat at Heathrow airport. We had checked in and Turkish Airlines accepted our 33 kilos each without demur. (30kg allowance). This had been a close run thing. The night before we flew out, Mac informed me that we had no working boats in the Dive Centre and no working vehicles. (Except for our 50 year old fire engine, but her main pump is not working). I walked [View Full Entry]

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Singapore. If someone had sat me down a few days ago and tried to educate me on the sheer number of shopping malls in Singapore there is no way that I would ever have understood. It really is completely mental!!! The amount of wealth here is ridiculous which being me I can only describe as suspicious. I'm yet to do my research but for a country who has only had their independence from Malaysia for 44 years they are incredibbly rich. Their high rise banking district is home to no less than 180 international banks, everywhere you walk you are attacked [View Full Entry]

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Since Qantas (using their budget subsidiary called JetStar) no longer cover the route from Bali to Singapore, they had booked us onto a Singapore Airlines flight instead. We were very impressed by the moist towels, three choices for lunch, unlimited beverages and in flight movies especially since the flight was only two and a half hours. I was only finishing my tiramisu when we began our descent. We had heard that Singapore was a very practical, functional and efficiently run city, the first example of this was at the airport. Travellators everywhere, very clear signs, no queue at immigrat [View Full Entry]

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Spent a couple of nice days in Singapore, a complete contrast to India as it’s practically Consumer Heaven (not that we could afford to buy anything, but browsing was fun). We did the Duck Tour - an amphibious vehicle that takes you both around the city and into the river, past the big wheel (copy cats!), the Helix Bridge and the huge casino development. We also saw where they were preparing for the Grand Prix which took place a couple of weeks later. Afternoon tea at Raffles, dahling, where Joe was in his element! The next day we went to Singapore [View Full Entry]

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