Archive for October, 2006

Crazy Singapore

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Life has been frantic since we left Tioman - we took a bus to Singapore and are living in a shoebox hotel, but atleast it’s modern, clean and not tatty. It’s across the road from Little India and quite the place to be with the Deepavali celebrations.
So far we’ve been to the Night Safari, Sentosa […]

Happy Birthday to Me!

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I had a fantastic birthday. Opened pressies - a beautiful silver & shell bracelet from Andy and the kids, and a lovely beaded bracelet from Claire and Peter. Pressies not expected while backpacking but very appreciated.
We had breakfast and then attempted to snorkel out to the small island off the resort. Normally it would be […]

Tioman Day 1

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

What a dreadful night. As we settled down for bed the maintenance guys turned up erecting scaffolding at one end of the building, belt sanding the floor at the other end and taking building materials into the building opposite. Complaints ensued and after a very long negotiation we were moved into two adjoining rooms in […]