1st November 2009

After a restless night, (I think we were both over-tired), we woke up in time to watch the Hull City match from the point in the game where they had a goal disallowed. They are certainly not getting the luck. Breakfast was fabulous; if we had wanted it, we could have had a full 3-course meal starting with soup (nothing we recognised!) and including vegetarian curry.

We spent the morning window shopping along Orchard Road but after a couple of hours found the humidity absolutely sapping (just as Avril had promised us in March but not delivered!!!) and we returned to the hotel. After a rest we went to Raffles Hotel where 'one took afternoon tea -actually had to treat 'the other half' to afternoon tea as well. We walked back to the hotel through one of the many huge malls that you find here in Singapore; however, we took a different route to the one we meant too and as I have just said, these malls are like little cities and we got quite confused as to how to get to the original mall. As we wandered along the myriad of concourses I kept my hands firmly in my pockets as we passed shops that reduced Rosalyn to a quivering wreck at the sight of some of the clothes, etc.

What we have found interesting is that while somethings are very reasonably priced, books (they have Borders here as well as local ones) are quite expensive; so if you are coming here on holiday, make sure you bring books with you.

We have an early start tomorrow, the flight to Perth is 9 am and we have to be up and out of the hotel by 6,30 am so I think we will have an early night.