Arrived back in Manchester after the long haul flight, all very tired and a little chilly, well 12° in Manchester versus mid to high 30°s in Singapore is a definite climate change. We went through passport control and on to collect our cases, this again was quite straight forward. Proceeded through customs, then outside the arrival terminal and awaited the return taxi back home. This is when the game of Chinese puzzle started again, the driver had to co-ordin...

Arrival in Munich, not as enjoyable as expected. The steward announced over the tannoy that only passengers disembarking in Munich were allowed off the plane, passengers travelling onto Manchester were to stay on the plane and wait an hour before take-off. Jackie was definitely not a happy bunny. After the hour, which seemed much longer, we took off again. The ladies all needed to visit the toilets where one of the flight attendants took great interest in the...

As normal, after breakfast all regrouped together and split up in our 3 taxis to go and visit the poignant Raffles statue adjacent to the Boat Quay. Got out of the taxi to be met by a black statue of Raffles, Shane said "is this it"? the reply was "No, we need to find the big white one". Thankfully one of the taxi drivers had given Andy the directions. We found some willing passers-by to take a group photograph with the No 2 pose, which is a copy of how Raff...

As this was Graham's last day with us before he returned to Thailand, we as a group wanted to spend the final day altogether and what better way than to visit the infamous Raffles Long Bar for the world famous cocktail a Singapore Sling. What a surprise this time it wasn't Diane first with her hand in the bag of nuts it was Shane. This is the only place in Singapore that litter can be thrown on the floor and the tradition is to eat monkey nuts and throw the shell...

Another early start to the day for our prearranged 1 - 2 hour trip across the border to Malaysia. The previous evening Jackie had asked Sensei Brian Loi from the Malaysian dojo, how long the trip would take, his reply 1 - 2 hours. Diane's question "How long will it take if we go after 10am" REALLY !!! In Car 1, was Shane, Frank, Jackie, Graham, Luba and Paul. On looking at the landscape whilst entering Malaysia which was quite flat, Graham said "It looks like ...