Singapore Again

Morning. It's now our third sojourn at Singapore Airport as we wait for our flight to Thailand. We've spent the last two days in Singapore aclimatising to humidity to get ready for some beach holiday action. We left the rest of the China group on Thursday night - they headed back to Brisbane and we went to our hotel in Singapore city.


Let's call Friday in Singapore "Pensioner Park Day". First off, we headed out to Sentosa park which is a combination of Southbank and Duff beer gardens. Soft tinkly music playing everywhere, clean clean clean, escalators ready to take you up any hill and don't forget the Tiger Beer tower that will smoothly take you up its bubbly tower to see the sights of Singapore. We then headed to the Singapore Zoo for three hours of wandering around seeing the fuzzy wuzzy animals. Factoid: Polar Bears weigh 450g when they are born. If three hours at the Singapore zoo wasn't enough, we decided to get tickets to the night zoo straight after. A 45 minute tram ride in the dark seeing the noctournal animals (or their shapes) out for a stroll.


You might have seen that folk have not been playing well in Bangkok this last week. We've been watching CNN closely (I totally know now why the Chaser takes this show off) as we were due to fly directly into Bangkok. By Friday we were feeling confident that people were getting along a little better with one another and had decided to stop running buses into other buses and parading around the streets shooting their guns. So, we were all due to fly into Bangkok last night to get right into the northern Thailand travel but then, on Friday, someone (put your hand up if it was you) decided to fire some bullets into the body of one the political party leaders. This equalled spanner in the works for our happy trekking into Bangkok.

Yesterday was one of those glorious days that befall many a traveller of finding internet cafes, printers, phone cards, telephones that work, going back and forth to the hotel, trying to spell your name over the phone to non-english speakers and general re-organistion of travel plans.
We've decided to bypass Bangkok and are now flying into Phuket. Fast forward to beach holiday. Hello. Yesterdays highlights included: finding a food outlet providing delicious lime slushies, marvelling at the Singaporeans love of toast and going to Little India which is a precinct in Singapore with streets of fruit and vege shops, shops to buy your yellow yellow gold, bangles, saris, body stickers, fake perfume, and of course Indian restaurants. We went through an Indian temple at the end of the street and came out thankful once again that our God is alive, cannot be captured in a statue and also does not like to eat our entrails.

Things will quieten down now for us over the next few days as we practice moulding our bodies to sunlounges.

I must away now to see if Terminal 3 holds any joy and wonder for me.

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