18th March 2009

Rosalyn and I are now completely shopped out. Today is our last full day of holiday and the four of us decided to take a trip on the Singapore Flyer which is even bigger than the London Eye. Unfortunately my fear of heights took over and I stayed very much on terra firma. It takes 30 minutes to complete a full revolution and whilst Rosalyn said it was very good and it was interesting to see the F1 grand prix circuit, she felt it was not as good as the London Eye. Two reasons – at the moment there is a lot of development going on so you were looking at building sites and secondly, there was no running commentary on what you could see. You were handed an audio guide and a pamphlet of information, but if you are using a camera and/or a video camera you cannot hold anything else and in consequence you are to a large extent not sure what you are looking at. Went back to the hotel and had a swim in the pool. We don't fly until 11.30 pm tomorrow night and have not decided how to spend the last day. The hotel will allow us to keep our rooms until 2 pm, but that still leaves us 5 hours before we need to leave for the airport. The problem is obviously one of trying not to get too hot as we will only have the showers by the pool if we need a good wash.

Anyway, not sure if I'll have chance to add to blog tomorrow, so you will have to wait until I return to Manchester before I do a summing up. I can tell you that in some way we are ready for home, but we are not looking forward to the cold weather!