Singapore

A short flight over to Singapore from Kutching on Malaysia Airlines. Excellent customer service on display. I hadn't ordered any veggie food because I thought the flight was too short for a meal. So the air hostess gave us some food intended for the crew :) which was very good of her.

We arrived at our hotel mid afternoon and it was a good 10 minute walk there from the closest BTS/metro, with the backpacks not getting any lighter. This was after a pretty direct trip from the airport. Our hotel was excellent, a huge window with window seat and a lovely bathroom with the best shower yet (these things are becoming increasingly important somehow). And a brilliant swimming pool and gym on the 7th floor which luckily happened to be our floor.

We ventured out to a technology mall (yes, just technology stores) to replace Cliff's heart rate monitor. We think it got left behind in Sandakan. But the specific store that carries Garmin stuff was closed so we had to go back the next day. Apart from that we tried to avoid the malls (there are loads) although it's hard to miss the cutting edge architecture used to bring in the punters.

We went along one day to the Singapore Discovery Centre, mistakenly thinking that it was the Science centre. Not sure how we managed that. It was a well thought out place, billed as an 'edutainment' centre. The kids could do some town planning (actually more fun than it sounds), news reporting, quizzes, dancing and there was an IMAX theatre too. And Cliff and Liam did some target shooting with modified rifles (Liam just edged it with the score). But the constant 'Singapore is great' message started to wear thin towards the end. Good pizza though.