This morning we got up on our last day of holiday, checked the weather (for a change it was hot) and got dressed in shorts and t-shirts. After a bit of pottering around, we headed for the Arab area of Singapore, dubbed Arab Street, and the promise of Singapore's best dumplings for lunch. There's not too much touristy to do in Arab Street but we did do a bit of what the locals did - find a cool mall (cool as in temperature) and have a look at the shops. No excit...

Last night at dinner we'd decided to head off to visit China Town today at 11ish to have a look around and eat brunch. We got up at what we thought was 10ish to be greeted by Richard with 'good afternoon.' What!? Apparently we'd slept until 1 in the afternoon ... something neither of us EVER do! Oops!!! Eventually we made it to China Town which is very colourful and has an unbelievable number of stalls - definitely the biggest China Town either of us have been...

This morning after a bit of a sleep in and breakfast, we headed to Little India. It is a rather colourful suburb but the shops were definitely not as pristine looking as those we saw around Marina Bay yesterday. It was quite a challenge walking along the footpath as every shop had half its contents set up outside and the path itself was a pile of poos (Brett's description). When it wasn't full of miscellaneous junk, the footpaths went up and down every couple of ...

This morning we managed to ride the bus and underground to the airport during rush hour without much trouble, despite having to lug our suitcases up and down stairs, lifts and escalators and through turnstiles. We arrived at Heathrow, the Switzerland of airports (no, that's not a compliment) a bit earlier than required to give ourselves extra time to get through the chaos. There was no queue at the check in luckily, but we were greeted by an airline representat...