MONDAY 14th MAY 2012WE'RE OFF!!!Josh arrived to get us up at 7.00am and after picking Den and Sue up we were on the highway at around 7.15am and sat back in the comfort and luxury of the Coastal Charters Statesman! (Complete with a copy of the paper and bottles of water)! Traveling in style that's for sure! The traffic was quite heavy on Tonkin Highway, but we arrived at the International Terminal at just after 9am, where Josh let us off right outside the...

We arrived in Singapore bang on time, having experienced quite a bit of turbulance on the way. The seat belt light was on numerous times and there were constant anouncements about "remaining seated with your seat belt done up". Other than that the flight with SA was very pleasant, and we were very relieved to find our cases waiting for us as we quickly cleared customs and found a maxi cab to get us into the city.The Marina Mandarin is just across the way from wh...

So our last day in Singapore today - for exploring, anyway - we fly out tomorrow morning!We had booked a harbour cruise and the pick-up was 10am so we went and had some brekky at a Dome Cafe we found in Suntec City - nothing like supporting a West Oz business - and had coffee and raisin toast, YUM! it was beautiful!Our pick-up bus was spot on time and we were whisked down to Marina South Pier to catch the "Imperial Cheng Ho", which is a modern Chinese junk. There...

Got started a bit earlier today, as we wanted to get to Sentosa before the rush and to avoid the usual afternoon thunderstorms. Took the train down to Harbourfront and bought tickets for the Cable Car over, Monorail back and then took a lift to the 15th floor of the building to catch the chair lift. We went up to Mount Faber first and then back over to Sentosa. The views were fantastic out over the bay and the Strait, but sadly the window tint on the little cabin...

We decided to have a bit of a look around the rest of the island today and caught the MRT train and did a loop to the north of the city and around in a westerly direction back to City Hall. The Mass Rapid Transit is typically Singaporean. That is, totally efficient, spotlessly clean and very well used! The system has 3 main lines running east-west, north-south and north-east, with an city circle line about to open also. There are about 118 kilometres of line exis...