The problem with sleeping all day is that you don’t sleep at night. Not that the noisy Japanese girls helped, coming in at 3am, then back and forth to the bathroom from 5am to 7am. I went for breakfast at 7.45am, then went to see if I could log into […]
Singapore
Amazingly, my skin felt quite cool when I woke up this morning. But it was still really sore and I didn’t feel like doing anything, so I slept and read. All day. Finally got out of bed to get a coffee, some chocolate and check emails. Then I decided to […]
Bedridden
Woke up around 10am – too late for breakfast. Took the MRT to Harbourfront, and from there the cable car to Sentosa Island. Apparently the views from the cable car are worth the extra expense. I disagree. The fastest lift in the world up the cable car however, was probably […]
Sentosa
Woke up later than I wanted, around 9am. Went down for breakfast. Hash browns and egg mayo anyone? Actually nicer than I expected. Decided I needed to orient myself, since the taxi journey took me round one-way systems. So I walked down to Orchard Road, the shopping mecca here. I […]
British Singapore
So we’re coming in to land in Singapore around 6pm. And the pilot tells us there’s a small technical problem with one of the hydraulic something-or-others, so it’ll take a little longer to get to the terminal, and if we see a couple of fire engines driving towards the plane, […]
Singapore: Day 1
(Don’t laugh – I know you love Annie too, and were no doubt singing along!) So the next journey starts tomorrow. An 8-month trip around the world, visiting Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, USA and Canada. For a rough itinerary, I’ll arrive in Singapore on 17th Jan, and stay until […]