Day one : Freedom! Jetstar to Singapore in transit. Richard, Yvonne, Jeannie and I. Time to hop the MRT to Chinatown for our traditional Tiger beer(s) at the corner, by the TinTin shop. Last time we did that I was embraced by some heavy drinking Singaporeans and Jeannie had to chisel me away and pour me on to the plane to Europe. Like Willie says, "on the road again...". Jeannie wisely booked us into a hotel in Singapore to get a few hours kip before the long...

Long layover in Singapore, waiting for the connection through to Bali tonight. Had a three hour wait in Dubai also after flying from Cairo but we are steadily progressing back toward our time zone as we flew east in hops on Emirates. Watched "Walking Dead" zombie series on the personal entertainment device and I'm jumpy at the best of times with this genre, so I jumped about a foot in my seat at one point and scared half the passengers around me including Jeannie...

Day 8 Singapore. After a traditional Singapore breakfast of Maccas at Raffles City we hopped on the Hop on bus around Singapore as Yvonne had never been to Singapore and d*** last visit was 40 years ago. A good orientation of Singapore and we got off at Peoples Park then led by Andre's excellent navigation skills got hopelessly lost (ok a bit lost) but still found our way to Chinatown. Hello TinTin shop!! My favourite shop in Singapore. The girls shopped through...

I am titling this leg as "Guantanamera", or "Only One Tanah Merah", for reasons which will become obvious - my last heroic misnavigation. Caught the Heathrow Express from Paddington, conveyed from Trafalgar (sounds like we were moving around a giant Monopoly board) by a chatty London Cabbie who reinfected Jeannie with a desire for a cruise on account of the dozen he'd been on. Singapore airline trip was just over 12 hours straight through. We had the wonderful ...

Unreal. Landed in singapore and went all over terminal 3 trying to find somewhere to leave the luggage for a few hours while we went in to chinatown. Jeannie found it - asked someone which a man (me) wouldn't have done. Long ride in on the MRT to Chinatown, changing twice on the way. Did Chinatown and went to our favourite spot to sit and have a beer in Chinatown. There was a group of middle aged chinese businessmen absolutely smashing through black and tans (gu...