Spent a couple of hours at the Apple service centre just round the corner from the hotel .... Eddie's iPad had died. Disaster. Fixed. Phew! Disaster averted. Had an amble around the ION shopping mall on Orchard Road. Everything is hugely expensive - many things more than double UK prices. Back to hotel to pack and taxi to the airport at 5pm. Love the trees that line the big wide boulevards of Singapore - very short trunks with long soaring, twisting branches a...

0800 on 21/01/15 Almost ready to GO ..... Can't believe today's the day (retrospectively). We are all packed up and down at the flat in Leatherhead. Car booked to pick us up at 1630 to take us to Heathrow. Great flight. So smooth on take off I thought we were still taxiing! Arrived Singapore 4pm local time (8 hrs ahead of the UK). Checked into the Hilton on Orchard Road. Taken out for dinner by a work associate - main event was a crab cooked whole and served in ...