And so I'm finishing this as I began, sat on the sofa at Highfield Gardens... We arrived back at Heathrow at 5am on Friday, headlong into predictably miserable weather (I shouldn't have worn sandals, I nearly got frostbite). But despite that I'm ridiculously happy to be home! At the moment I'm walking around amazed by the novelty value of the most stupidly mundane things like road signs and English coins. Not loving the fact I can't mentally halve every price I ...

This is my final blog entry abroad and I'm writing it from Singapore Changi Airport, using the free internet facilities. It's probably the swankiest airport I've ever been to and I've just gone mental in Duty Free (though most of the stuff I've bought has been on behalf of others). But I now possess the ingredients to make White Russians at bargain basement prices... So we did our sightseeing today, heading first on the MRT to Chinatown and soaking up the atmosp...

It's the final day!!! I can't believe it... I think I must have been stressing about it subconsciously before I went to sleep because I had some very vivid dreams last night! However, one of those featured Guy Garvey being my boyfriend so that was pretty lovely! We did so very little yesterday and it was just what the doctor ordered. We checked into The Elizabeth Hotel, just off Orchard Road, and settled in for the day. Jim didn't actually leave the room more th...

Well, Jim and I have made it to Singapore! It was a bit of a grueller yesterday - six hours waiting at Christchurch Airport, three and a half hours to Sydney, hopping straight off the plane onto our seven and a half hour flight to Singapore. There's not a lot to report really as I spent about 15 hours just sat on my arse yesterday. Singapore Airlines are amazing though - it was a barrage of drink and food served by creepily beautiful/neat air hostesses. Plus th...

Unexpectedly, I'm still writing to you from Christchurch! We've had a wee mix up with flights and it turns out ours was postponed until tomorrow afternoon, meaning we only have two nights in Singapore and that we slept on the floor of the airport last night for nothing! b*****. So we checked into a hotel on the airport complex at about 7am, slept until 2pm and then having been killing time all day (Jim found Premiership highlights on Sky and I went for a swim). ...