Mercifully, we had a late checkout, which gave us plenty of recovery time to prepare for the cross-town trip with suitcases in tow.  With plenty of time, and the MRT being so easy to use with lifts everywhere, we’d decided to travel by train to the cruise terminal.  We broke out our EZ Passes one […]

We’re leaving soon to board the cruise ship, and will be offline for a few days, so here’s a quick wrap of our day yesterday.  We walked for miles/hours, and ended up feeling like we’d completed a 12 hour rogaine, but we did see a lot.  I’ll let the pictures do the talking … they […]

But first – Mt Faber.  The itinerary said “Get up early, and walk up to Mt Faber (short, steep uphill climb). What were we thinking! Splashing out on a all-day cable car pass seemed like a much better idea; saving an hour of walking meant an extra hour of sleeping. Around mid-morning we strolled down […]

Thanks to the Formula 1 Grand Prix being on in Singapore this weekend, hotel prices in Marina Bay and downtown were through the roof.  AirBNB and the like are banned here so we couldn’t find a place with cooking facilities – not even a microwave.  We settled for a hotel in Harbourfront, opposite VivoCity, which […]

Today is our penultimate day in Singapore the LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT RUN, after moving hotels in the middle of the night (more on this some other time) we were so stressed that we didn’t drop off to sleep for ages. Consequently we woke at 9.30 and almost missed breakfast, which is served until 10 […]

Today is Sunday, we think, which means this must be Belgium. Actually it turns out that it is Singapore. When we found out six months ago that Emirates no longer flew from KL to Melbourne and had shunted us on to an Malaysian Air Services flight, we ran around in circles screaming so we then […]

We’re on our way to our penultimate destination – Singapore.  The red eye flight from Rome (the airport is absolutely enormous) to Singapore, via Dubai was long, tedious and sleepless.  The flight from Dubai was for some unknown reason delayed by an hour and a half, after a four hour transit in Dubai.  We both […]