Our Last Country

After breakfast we met our guide at 0800 for the trip to the airport for our flight to Singapore. The trip was uneventful, and again we got served a hot meal on a 90 minute flight with free beer and wine. North American airlines take note, it can be done!

All the immigration at Singapore was automated, with a few officers around to help if there were problems. We had no delays at all with the process, and as we walked over to the baggage claim, there was my bag. Lyn’s was four behind it. Again North American airlines take note, it can be done!

We had a panic moment as we exited customs, again there was no one holding a board with our name on it! Fortunately within half a minute some one came up and introduced himself to us, I was a little nervous but saw our names and tour company name on his phone so all was OK.

We headed out to the hotel, again driving on the “correct” side of the road. It was so different to the other countries, nice wide and uncrowded roads with no kamikaze scooters. At the hotel, check in again was automated with help available.

We were soon on our way to the room. The room was great and the view even better. We were on the 30th floor. Pictures to follow

After settling into the room for a while, we headed out to the “basement” area, which is full of restaurants that serve meals at a much more reasonable price than the hotel!!

We travel half way around the world and what do we find:

Apart from Marks and Sparks (British department store), there have been numerous sightings of 7-11’s (corner store on steroids) in most of the countries.

Having surveyed the restaurants earlier, we headed back in the evening in search of food. We found somewhere on our third attempt! The restaurants tended to be Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Korean, Thai or Subway. We settled on a Thai Noodle house. Automation ruled again, we had to scan a QR code to get the menu and order. After a few futile attempts where I seem to have ordered all the food in the restaurant, we managed to order what we wanted with a little help from a bemused waiter!

After filling ourselves with a tasty meal we headed back to the room to view the city at night.