Just a quick message as I'm just at Singapore airport and only have 4 mins remaining on my time. Just getting ready to go to Sydney. Had a good day yesterday - wandered round the Arab, Little India and Chinatown areas which were really interesting. Ate some good food and spent a leisurely afternoon round the Botanical Gardens where I got chatting to a German guy who is studying in Singapore so him and I wandered round the park together for an hour or so, which...

Just a quick blog before I head to bed: My day started by heading out to explore by heading to the Civic area, viewing the Esplanades Theatre which is an interesting domed building and surrounding park areas. Walked down to the river which is really pretty with towering buildings and impressive hotels and restaurants along the waterfront. As it was nice weather I decided to head to Mount Faber and Sentosa Island. You can walk up the mountain or get the cable ...

I've arrived in Singapore! Amazingly I managed to get an upgrade due to oversales so was sat in the World Traveller Plus section of the plane, which meant I had lots of leg room, a window seat, more channels, a little pack with eye mask, ear plugs & socks and just one person sat next to me. Luckily that someone turned out to be a really nice interesting man from Scotland (no romance potential though as he is happily married with kids!). I arrived at 4pm S...