I’m on my way to Italy! n the stopover in Singapore for a night at the Shangri La Hotel (where I first stayed 40+ years ago), I get the chance to catch-up with good friends, Joy Wrix and Alex, who sign me in me to the hallowed surrounds of the old Singapore Cricket …
ailing on Silver Wind from Singapore for Muscat in Oman on 19th March 2015. I use photos to share the limited range of activities I enjoy walking around and meeting friends in the ports where we travel. They albums are by no means exhaustive of all the possibilities in these exotic ports of call. Singapore …
ANOTHER SINGAPORE Aren’t we all secretly still searching for that new high; a reinvention of the very familiar? Well, I find it in Singapore, choosing to stay in an old, and now made-good, boutique hotel of local character comprising a row of refurbished chophouses – in Singapore’s Chinatown. If the red-lip sticked, smiling staff in …
For a small island in the tropics,Singapore never ceases to amaze. The Singapore that was . . . in a small street near my hotel. The Singapore that is . . . with the Sands SkyPark infinity pool floating 200 metres in the sky atop the three soaring Marina Bay Sands Hotel towers. On a …
I was reading the now famous Stieg Larsson “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” most of the way from Sydney to Singapore so I placed my everyday “distance” spectacles in their little orange case in the “safe” cubby hole in the seat in front of me. Singapore Airlines A380 You guessed it. I walked off …