Crowne Plaza Hotel Changi Airport Singapore

Hey all! <br><br>Well it's now Thursday night, although our confused little bodies think it's Thursday morning. It's a balmy sweaty muggy 26 degrees in Singapore and we're almost home! <br><br>So we woke up this morning (doesn't seem like that long ago, but with the time differences it was over 24 hours ago!) in Luton. Had a nice big brekkie and my last hot shower before heading home. We wandered up to the ...

... factors interplayed as well) we ended up getting to Marina Bay, about and hour and a half late meaning that we couldn't get to the viewing area as anticipated meaning we spent several hours wandering the streets of Marina Bay with thousands of other Singaporeans trying to find a place to view the celebrations. I like to be organised (almost to the point of obsessive but anyway!) and when confronted with unexpected and unwanted obstacles I do get infuriated! This was ...

... in d** Shushibar und ein Abstech** ins Hard Rock Cafe. Zwischendurch arbeitete ich auch noch etwas an mein** nun ja etwas bescheidenen Hautfarbe was mir mehr od** we***** gelang. So nun gehts heut Abend ab** au schon wied** heim nach good old G**many. VIELEN VIELEN DANK noch mal an meine sehr sehr gastfreundlichen "Gastelt**n", die mich ohne große Umstände gleich wied** aufgenommen haben. Hatte eine sup** Zeit hi** in Singapore welche als v**söhnlich** Ausklang mehr als geeignet war.

... in<br>Singapore had a fruity smell mixed in with the AC (super bizarre to<br>me). Despite seeing signs everywhere warning you about fines, the<br>city really isn't that different from any other city. <br><br><br><br><br>After a very full day, we contemplated<br>doing another marathon day since we would have to spend another day<br>out of the apartment until 10pm and decided against it. There is an<br>island just off Singapore that you can ride in a sky pod thing to<br>get to ...

... read by a lazar pen held to my head due to the recent outbreak of Swine Flu. It showed I had a temperature of 35.8 degrees, which was surprisingly cool seeing as Singapore is along on the equator! In the evening, I took a twenty minute MRT ride, then a 45 minute bus ride to the Night Safari Park. I'd heard it was a safari park rather than a zoo, which technically it was, but the enclosures were no where near large ...

... hawker's markets in the city, a collection of food stalls (numbering in the hundreds) in an open but roofed market. Food choices ranged from sweet potato dumplings, to burgers, to rice/noodle based dishes, to pig's organ soup. Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Italian, Indian, Japanese, American, etc. etc. etc... Several vendors had roasted whole ducks displayed in a heated case. The food is quite good, inexpensive, and undeniably authentic ...

... period of restful shut-eye in our hotel was our only priority. You can then well imagine that the shrill ring of the bedside phone at 8:30am on Sunday morning that roused us out of our comatose state was hardly a welcome intrusion. Groggily picking up the receiver it appeared that while I could hear the male caller OK, he was not so easily able to hear me. After some confusion I worked out that my hand was muffling the bottom end of the phone. The caller subsequently ...