Singapore & Home

Day 48 & 49

Well we all knew these days would come. We had been trying to not think about them however the time has come to head home.

We started off by getting an 11 hour flight from Frankfurt airport to Singapore. The flight left at 10pm and we were keen to grab some shut eye so we wouldn't be too jet lagged by the time we got home. The couple in front of us put their seat back to get so sleep so we tried to do like wise. Unfortunately two prats continually pushed our chairs back up and complained to us that they didn't have any leg room (one of the guys was my height so that wasn't going to cut the mustard). I tried again and again he pushed the seat back then the nonce decided to ram Jane's seat back almost knocking her out of her chair. Some words were exchanged, cabin crew came over to calm me down and in the end we got our seats back as far as we needed. Made sure when we got off the flight I gave him a big smile and kept on going on about how good my sleep was.

After this we had a car pick us up from the airport. We decided that for the last night we would go all out. Nice hotel, good meal & obviously that will lead to a chauffeur picking you up from the airport.

We decided early that we weren't going to do any sight seeing in Singapore just shopping. So we headed straight out and hunted for the bargains. It's great being in a country where the Aussie dollar is so good. We went looking for a digital SLR and the one I was keen on was around $895 at most places. One guy as soon as I asked the price and then said thanks and turned to leave dropped it to $700. That's when I thought maybe I can do better else where if he dropped his prices that easily. Needless to say I am still without a digital SLR. 

Dinner was a buffet at the hotel. This is probably the best all you ban eat thing I have ever been to.... maybe not Wildfire. They had so many different types of Asian food as well as top quality seafood and a pretty good carvery and dessert menu. I ate way too much and was in agony for about 15 mins while my body tried to digest it all. Unfortunately it couldn't and I was a little bit sick for the rest of the night. Nothing to do with the quality of food, I was just a pig.

After a bit of shopping the next morning we hit the airport (3 terminals all like little shopping malls). Spent hours walking around, buying a whole lot of gifts both for others and ourselves.

Plane ride was on the new A380 airbus. This thing is massive. We were in economy and had more than enough leg and elbow room. Each seat had a 10 inch wide screen TV in the head rest where we got to chose what ever we wanted to watch. Both Jane and my TV was skipping a little so they moved us to another 2 seats that were together. I can never say enough about Singapore Airlines. They are the best by far.

So the holiday is at an end. As you can see we have a lot of cleaning up to do. We have out duty free liquor, over 3,500 photos and enough memories to last a life time.. well maybe another 2 years.

Big thanks again to all those that put us up, came out, went Lambanana hunting, drank with us, ate curries with us. We had an awesome time and can't wait to see where our next holiday will take us.

Bye for now!