Well. What can we say. The first day and a half of what was supposed to be a quick 3 day trip for the opening of the skatepark Brett built last year in Singapore, was good... We got into Singapore in the afternoon, and made our way to the hotel we were booked into and met up with the rest of the crew from Brett's work that were flying in from their Melbourne office. It was a good flight over, it went fast and Terminal 3 at the Singapore Airport which we had never been too, was amazing as everyone says [View Full Entry]

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So this is where my 'listing by day' plan comes unstuck. Travelling so far east around the planet the whole time thing gets a little wobbly, and my body doesnt know whether its hungry, tired, hot or cold. A nice night in the Delmere in London and a good breakfast too. Rain stopped for a short while so decided to walk to Paddington station. It was less than quarter of the distance to walk than a black cab (one way streets). Todays travelling surpassed all other, everything fell together like kids jigsaw. I walked into Paddington station and found the sign [View Full Entry]

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(Day 518 on the road) "Wasn't the Airbus 320 the plane that crashed a few months ago, you know that Air France flight from Brazil to France...?" The pretty Asian girl in the seat next to me on the flight from Bali to Singapore tensed up noticeably, then she mumbled something which I didn't quite catch. With hindsight, this probably wasn't the best line to chat her up, and thus for the next two and a half hours I just kept to myself and read my book. It had been the very last day of my Indonesian visa. In fact, it [View Full Entry]

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Michelle had warned me that we had to be out of the hostel and on the road for 9am. She had something planned for my 30th birthday at 10:30am that morning, somewhere on the outskirts of Singapore. I hadn’t a clue what she had planned so I just went with the flow. On the train I was pestering her as to what it was but she wouldn’t tell me. She had me baffled as it was well outside the city and she had to pay in cash. Eventually we came to the house of Roxanna, a women of Indian origins from [View Full Entry]

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If Carlsberg did Zoo’s, it would do Singapore Zoo. The last zoo we went to was in Santiago and we left there a bit depressed after seeing only one animal per cage. They looked totally unhappy and it is not a zoo I would advise anyone to visit. Singapore Zoo on the other hand is the complete opposite. Orang-utans roam freely around the zoo and you can get so close to the animals sometimes you wonder are you too close. The big difference with this zoo and every other one we have been to is that the animals move around in [View Full Entry]

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On the plane I was in the middle row in the middle seat next to Ray and Michelle. During the flight I watched 17again, Hannah Montana, The Proposal and Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past. I got to see out the window going over Aussie. Lunch on the flight was actually really good. 10 hours and 8500kms later we were in Singapore for 4 hours with 10 other AFS students going to France. The airport is 3 separate buildings and has a little shuttle train which ran between them every 3 minutes. We first updated facebook then went exploring. The butterfly garden, the [View Full Entry]

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Three months and 16 days to go before we are home, for any of you that are interested in us when we return! With a massive adventure and the biggest cultural differences we will come across on our travels we are really excited about Asia. Our first stop for a few short days will be Singapore. A tiny little country at the tip of the Malaysian peninsula. Its probably best we eased ourselves into South East Asia by coming here first. Its similar to any western city and has all the trappings to go with it. When we arrived in Changi [View Full Entry]

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By overnight train we arrived from Kota Baru in Singapore. Here we met our German friend Julia again. We've been running into Julia everywhere since we met her first in Tama Negara. At this time Julia was traveling with a father and son from Switzerland annd son from Switzerland annd son from Switzerland and we decided to join for a bit. During our Journey to Singapore it was Ilse who attended us to the fact that it was Singapore's 44th birthday on our date of arrival. After the train, we said goodbye to the Swiss and Julia joined us to our [View Full Entry]

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Meine Lieben Dass eine Businessstadt einfach unfreundliche Bewohner hat, ist seit Singapore keine berechtigte Aussage mehr. Wahnsinn, was ich da an Gastfreundschaft, Hilfsbereitschaft und Feundlichkeit erfahren habe. Ich bin echt beeindruckt, und versuche, mir davon ein Stueck abzuschneiden. Mit Singapore Air hatte ich ja einen super deal. Hab einen Stopover fuer eine Nacht gebucht, mit Hotel und Flughafentransfer. War ziemlich guenstig, aber hat sich voll gelohnt. Da ich waehrend dem Flug ziemlich viel geschlafen habe, kam ich gut erholt in meinem Hotel an und verspuerte denn stark [View Full Entry]

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Hi all spent over an hour trying to put on some photos but no joy. So will see you soon to bore you with the physical evidence. Wish you were here LOL xxx [View Full Entry]

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