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Published: January 19th 2009
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Disney Xmas
Crimbo time in Singapore! Airport bound, one night in the red light district and 24 or so hours Christmas shopping airport style!
We arrive in Singapore airport a little exhausted and a little bit crazy from 18 or so hours stuck in an Indonesian airport! We decide we need a bed and find the cheapest place in Singapore is surprisingly the red light district, we weren’t paying by the hour though and got the room for the whole night! Shower, shave and slept like a baby, never felt so good to have a hot water shower before with water that didn’t smell of sewerage! We sleep for a good 12 hours straight and wake up refreshed and full of beans, we have 29 or so hours left till our flight so it’s back to the airport for some shopping and relaxation as we have heard Singapore airport is one of the best places to chill out, it even has a cinema and bowling alley as well as the usual bar and cocktail spots.
On getting the SMRT which is there railway system we head for the airport, we check out bags in and we are ready to explore. The whole place is covered
Singapore, airport fun!
Airport shopping, dropping and flying! in Christmas stuff and it’s quiet exciting as you can probably see from some of the photo’s, lots of Disney action and a new hat for Helen and a laptop netbook for the two of us so we can get some CV’s sent to Australia and get back on the 9-5 rat race for a few months whilst we are there.
The airport is huge and after a few hours it’s time for a mocha frappuccino to keep us going, although at this point we have a good few hours left to kill! We spend the rest of the time exploring the airport and charging our iPods for free in the charger safes that are dotted around, really good idea! We slump down for some food and to hop on the internet on our new little laptop, we upload a few photos and email a few people and the time has flown by today and it’s only an hour or two til we get on the plane to Sydney. We head over to the gate with our gifts to ourselves and begin the count down, 30 minutes till boarding, whoop!
We were flying with Singapore airlines and they
Airplane, airplane!!
After a full day and a bit it arrives!! are pretty dam good, you get free drinks so we make the most of that and the movies on the plane are pretty good, iron man, tropic thunder and some other stuff like the SNES games that can be played with the remote. The food was tasty and in no time we were landing in Australia and getting another stamp in our passports, hello Australia and it’s nice to see how clean the place is and it the air is so different to South East Asia, you can feel it in your lungs as you breath and the lack of moisture in the air is a refreshing change as well! Off we trot to the Boomerang Hostel for some rest before we head to the blue parrot for Jay’s 25th Birthday and what I can only imagine will be carnage.
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