Blogs from Changi, Singapore, Asia - page 12

More Singapore updates: Monday: Party day! Raymond's parents hold a big party for all the relatives and close friends. We started the day by riding the Singapore Flyer the first day it was open. It is a HUGE ferris wheel (165 meters!!!) that has been closed for about 6 weeks since it broke. Fortunately, it did not break while we were riding it. It has a nice commentary that tells you all about the Singapore skyline. I will give you a little bit of Singapore history... it was settled in 18-oh-something by Sir Raffles (I forgot his first name) from England. He signed an agreement with the Malay people to have it become a British colony. Mr. Raffles knew it would be a great place to have a port, and there it was established. Singapore has ... read more

After 6 months of travel we were exausted. Travelling does that to you; living out of a backpack wasn't an issue as we each had about 3 shirts and 2 pair of shorts to contend with; the problem was the constant moving, lugging bags, and finding buses or trains and places to stay all with in a budget. In retrospect, you remember all the amazing parts and certainly forget the hardships; writing the blog well after we finished the trip, I find myself drifting back to memorable places, retasting food by memory or visualising the bustling local markets teaming with goods costing next to nothing compared to Australia. Slightly diverging, Australia is expensive! I'm talking London prices expensive, and with salaries not matching is quite disconcerting. Anyway, writing the blog is a great way of taking ... read more

Singapore is so steamy and wet! Vast difference to the cold sleety rain in London. Once again I didn't get a wink of sleep... can't believe I'm going to work tomorrow! What a drag! Anyway, 8 hours till I'm back in Sydney! Can't wait for some Summer weather yay! xoxo... read more

This is only going to be a quick update because I have a little time ticker in the corner of this free internet terminal. The flights have been surprisingly goo up to this point in time. Sitting down for hours on end has made me more sore then I could ever have imagined. I am currently in Singapore right now at 2:30AM in the morning wandering around the airport looking for Wednesday. I left on Tuesday and landed on Thursday so I'm missing a day somewhere, I hope this isn't a trend that will continue. It has been a fairly uneventful trip so far but I have met several people who are traveling to Australia or Thailand that I may meet up with as my travels progress. So far I have seen the insides of the ... read more

After last night's heavy session, you wouldn't believe how relieved I was that todays scheduled East Coast and Changi Tour was an afternoon start, however, this didn’t stop the enthusiastic if slightly wayward room service girl disturbing my sleep at 7am, by knocking at my door armed with Ironing board and Iron...Why!!! Having to then explain at length in my best local dialect words to the effect of 'You are in the wrong place love', I figured that now I was up...I may as well go have breakfast and upon doing so ran into the two adrenalin junkies Ivy and Irene plunging into their respective plates from not so great heights with their skydiving idea still deeply concerning me. The tour was a pleasant one, taking in the Changi Museum and Tampines housing estate (govt funded ... read more