We're 6 hours into the second part of the flight and seen to the fact that we must have the two loudest snoring people in the southern hemisphere sitting right behind us, we might as well spent time unwillingly awake in a more productive way and write a post. We hope they have really sore throats, as we have very sore eyes and ears and Gil's Asperger is kicking up like a %!$#!^%.
Singapore was quite the experience. In a "hey lets get food poisoning in a really bad way at the first place we eat and then break the world record of most public toilets visited in the space of 8 hours sort of way" But of course only Gil suffered from that, because Yumi "bowels of steel" Stamet could probably eat enriched plutonium 238, boiled in polonium enriched cooling water and still be allright. But enough anbout Gil's bowel movements...there was a whole city to see.
We started the day by catching some shuteye at the airside hotel and managed to get almost 5 hours of sleep, getting up at the local time of 12:00 (NL 05:00). We were up and out on the town with our public transport passes like real commoners at 14:00 and scoped out some lunch (all was still good then) and then went off to see Chinatown. We walked some more in a not so comfortable 895 degrees, but fortunately there was a cooling breeze of about 742 degrees, so no need to complain.
The city looks a lot like HK and KL, but a little more designed, planned and newer. It is indeed very clean and the signage telling you to not litter, smoke, eat, drink, park, run or act suspicious (no joke) in public was a big source of entertainment (pics will follow). By the time it was three and Gil was seriously considering going back to airport to die with some dignity, Yuum drugged him back from the light at the end of the tunnel with real Coca Cola (oh man that tastes awful!!) and aspirin and he started feeling somewhat less miserable. We trugged ahead, saw some temples, a lot of German cars and a Chinese Dancing dragon sponsored by Knorr (which makes complete sense)
Around 17:00 Gil was out for the count and making nice with another new public toilet. (tip from Gil, keep an eye on the cleaning schedule and remember that toilet paper gets dispensed when you come in and is not in the stall and no, he did not get caught with his pants down....) when the foodpoisoning seemed to have run its course and we entered the Singapore Flyer for a very spectacular view of the city from 168 meters up.
Afterwards we completed a nice walk along the riverfront, saw the Raffles hotel and snapped a pic of Orchard road for Gil's mom (check, it's still there) but as it was getting dark and Gil found himself looking for new a new restroom to befriend, we decided to call it a day and head back to the airport for our hand luggage, a meal for Yuum, the last souvenir and a well needed shower. Before we knew it we were boarding and on our way in this big-ass A380 on the upper deck.
While this is written, we're flying very close to Canberra and with only 60 minutes of flight time we're getting ready to start a new day. It's 10:30 where we are and our plan is to get the luggage, get the rental, get the airfreight and be on our way. We'll let you know how that went somewhere later today or maybe tomorrow.
Singapore was quite the experience. In a "hey lets get food poisoning in a really bad way at the first place we eat and then break the world record of most public toilets visited in the space of 8 hours sort of way" But of course only Gil suffered from that, because Yumi "bowels of steel" Stamet could probably eat enriched plutonium 238, boiled in polonium enriched cooling water and still be allright. But enough anbout Gil's bowel movements...there was a whole city to see.
We started the day by catching some shuteye at the airside hotel and managed to get almost 5 hours of sleep, getting up at the local time of 12:00 (NL 05:00). We were up and out on the town with our public transport passes like real commoners at 14:00 and scoped out some lunch (all was still good then) and then went off to see Chinatown. We walked some more in a not so comfortable 895 degrees, but fortunately there was a cooling breeze of about 742 degrees, so no need to complain.
The city looks a lot like HK and KL, but a little more designed, planned and newer. It is indeed very clean and the signage telling you to not litter, smoke, eat, drink, park, run or act suspicious (no joke) in public was a big source of entertainment (pics will follow). By the time it was three and Gil was seriously considering going back to airport to die with some dignity, Yuum drugged him back from the light at the end of the tunnel with real Coca Cola (oh man that tastes awful!!) and aspirin and he started feeling somewhat less miserable. We trugged ahead, saw some temples, a lot of German cars and a Chinese Dancing dragon sponsored by Knorr (which makes complete sense)
Around 17:00 Gil was out for the count and making nice with another new public toilet. (tip from Gil, keep an eye on the cleaning schedule and remember that toilet paper gets dispensed when you come in and is not in the stall and no, he did not get caught with his pants down....) when the foodpoisoning seemed to have run its course and we entered the Singapore Flyer for a very spectacular view of the city from 168 meters up.
Afterwards we completed a nice walk along the riverfront, saw the Raffles hotel and snapped a pic of Orchard road for Gil's mom (check, it's still there) but as it was getting dark and Gil found himself looking for new a new restroom to befriend, we decided to call it a day and head back to the airport for our hand luggage, a meal for Yuum, the last souvenir and a well needed shower. Before we knew it we were boarding and on our way in this big-ass A380 on the upper deck.
While this is written, we're flying very close to Canberra and with only 60 minutes of flight time we're getting ready to start a new day. It's 10:30 where we are and our plan is to get the luggage, get the rental, get the airfreight and be on our way. We'll let you know how that went somewhere later today or maybe tomorrow.
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