rob thea

(Recalled Nov '09) Wednesday Went to Botanic Gardens again early to buy some souvenirs. Checked out at 12pm and had to wait in the lobby for 2 hours for transfer to airport. Spent another 6 hours at the airport before takeoff at 9:15pm.... read more

(Recalled Nov. '09) Monday Arrived at Singapore at 6:45am. Transfer to York hotel in another mini bus, this time not alone. Amazed by how neat, tidy and clean Singapore was. Got to hotel 4 hours before check in time, but they checked us in straight away. After the rudeness of many Europeans in the service industry, we were stunned by how friendly and helpful the people of Singapore were. Hotel was very very nice. By far the nicest one we'd stayed in but not the most expensive. We were also (well, Thea was) stunned by the humidity and heat. After coming from a European Winter, it was almost unbearable. Didn't help that I forgot to pack summer clothes for Singapore.... read more

(Recalled Nov '09) Saturday Back to the Pantheon for another look, and inside the Colosseum, then up to Palatine Hill. Our last day in Rome.... read more

(Recalled Nov '09) Thursday On this day we did an Ancient Rome Tour on a bus with an excellent and informative tour guide which took in the forum, outside the Colosseum and it's arches and St Paul's outside the walls.... read more

(Recalled Nov '09) Tuesday Sadly there are no more entries in our travel diary. We must have both had had enough of it. So it will be photos and whatever I can recall 7 years later from here. We had another very long walk from the train station to the hotel (Claridge Hotel). There was a supermarket directly across the street from our hotel so we went for usual supplies. We arrived in Rome on New Year's Eve and intended to find something to go and see or do but we ended up staying in because it was too far to walk to anything. We heard fireworks from our room at midnight, they woke us up. No photos for this day.... read more