Singapore - June 2008

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Saturday 28 June: With only a few hours and a daypack, I took Jacqueline's advice to head straight to Sentosa. I had hoped to get by without any cash, but the train ticket machines didn't accept credit cards. The ticketing system took a slight leap of faith but once I got the hang of it, it was quite a nifty system. In fact my impression of Singapore was that it was cheap, good value, clean, efficient; it strikes me that you'll be fine as long as you don't mind being very well behaved - luckily that suits me quite well.

Sentosa is a small theme park/resort/island (seemingly staffed largely by minimum-age workers!), and I went up inside the statue of a mermaid lion 'Merlion' (I think I went to a few cities with lions as their emblem on my trip), a museum of sorts called Images of Singapore, the Sky Tower - a sort of observation deck on a list, and I had to go on the luge after missing out on the top of Mt Pilatus. I went for a very soothing swim and watched some beach volleyball as the sun went down, and the jet fighters screeched overhead.

On the monorail back a couple of the 'locals' struck up a delightful conversation with me which was a great finishing touch on my travels - Wenna, a Chinese girl studying in Singapore, was excellent company on the short trip back to the city. Then - back to Changi airport for the final leg.

Home: Thanks to Jeanette, Rob and Matty who met me at the airport; it was great to be home; but I'd had a brilliant time, thanks again everyone & I hope to catch you all again soon!