Blogs from Singapore Harbour, Singapore, Asia - page 3

I just returned to Germany after a year in Singapore. I worked extremely hard while I was there since I was doing three jobs at a time: consulting work for our Singaporean office, consulting work for our Kuala Lumpur office, and research for our German headquarter. So my job also involved a lot of travelling – to conferences to Hawaii, Paris, and San Sebastian and back and forth between Singapore and KL. At times I was in KL almost every week. There was loads of work to do. However, projects were diverse, super interesting and fun, so I did not mind the amount of work too much – also because I knew it would be for a limited amount of time. Although I worked a lot I still managed to see a lot around the ... read more

We have arrived! Our flights were happily uneventful and most enjoyable thanks to first class and business class accommodations provided by Oceania Cruise lines. A driver was waiting for us at 1:45 a.m. and took us to our most beautiful hotel Pan Pacific which is close to all that Singapore has to offer and which we shall enjoy for the next four days. We are wide awake as Singapore is 12 hours ahead of New York so we will stay the course until tonight and try to get on track time wise.... read more

Hi people, We started off the day with a swim in the parks pool. It was so nice to cool down in this heat, only problem was it was raining and the heat quickly disappeared and left us in a cold pool. Still was so good to have a swim and relax. We headed back to the condo for a shower and some breakfast. (honey on toast) We had planned to head to Pulau Ubin today but as the weather was so poor we decided to have a chilled day, we headed to have a look around chinatown, beth said it was good. We got there and found so many Chinese food stalls (made me a very happy boy) so we decided to have lunch there. I wanted something from one stall and vick another so ... read more

Singapore! Goodbye Sapphire Princess …we’re off to find our luggage in the gigantic warehouse on the dock. Thousands of pieces of luggage, how much can you possibly need for a 17 day cruise? It’s a miracle the ship even floats with everything aboard LOL. Red 7, somewhere our luggage is in a pile called Red 7. Cope guards the carry ons while I go on a search and find mission. Mission accomplished as I get a cart a move the luggage toward Cope through the throngs of people grumbling and looking for theirs. Just the day before we got off we signed up to take an overview tour of Singapore on the way to the hotel. After going through customs and immigration we headed to our bus and to our surprise, we found all 4 of ... read more

Zvládla jsem 12 hodin letu a šťastně dorazila na letiště v Singapore - místního času cca 5:40 ráno v pátek 18.7., českého času asi 23:40 ve čtvrtek 17.7. Tím, že jsem furt jen na letišti bych nepostřehla změnu oproti Amstru, až na to, že tu svítá, zatímco u nás je hluboká tma, mluví tu anglicky a sem tam čínsky a přibylo nám tu v okolí víc Indů, Číňanů, Japonců... Jo a WiFi je tu na letišti zdarma. Jen na 5 minut prý, ale už ji používám přes hodinu, tak to mají nějaký rozbitý ;) Při přeletu nad Indií mě popadlo trochu té nostalgie, jsou to přesně 2 roky (bez týdne), kdy jsem mířila tam. To mi připomíná - doufám, že tentokrát na mě můj kufr čekat bude :D Slyšela jsem teď o tom tragickém sestřelení letadla ... read more