Off to a good start as our flight out of Canberra was delayed. Not really an issue as we had 7 hours to kill in Sydney anyway. Once we landed in Sydney we went into town and decided to watch the final Harry Potter movie, enjoyed the movie, not sure about the 3D thing, didn't really add much to it in my opinion.
Headed back to the airport about 2:30 to catch our 3:50 flight, got a bit of a shock when we walked into the airport at 2:55 to see that our flight was due to board at 3:05, was really happy to see that there was no line at customs so we made it in plenty of time.
Had a good flight, sat next to two Canberra boys who were off to ride 4 of the TDF stages, they're also going to be on Alpe-d Huez to watch Cadel climbing to victory ;-)
Landed in Singapore at 10:30pm local time, took a while to clear customs, Steve and Pannida were there waiting for us, made it nice and easy for our first trip into another country.
Steve's place is really nice and has a great view over Singapore. Spent yesterday morning at the botanical gardens, had a nice breakfast there, sat down with a local lady, 80yrs young but looked about 60, walks down to the gardens every morning for a cup of coffee, she had spent 50years in England working, now retired in Singapore.
After the gardens we spent the rest of the day in the centre of Singapore at the shops, that is until Steve and I got sick of shopping and headed to the Marriot bar to have a couple of beers and watch the world go by, very civilised.
Headed down to Marina Bay sands in the afternoon, watched the "practice" session for Singapores national day, complete with Jet flyovers, other military displays and fireworks.
A couple of pics from Singapore
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