The End, A Fantastic Trip

We had a pleasant flight back to Heathrow and David very kindly collected us and took us back to Southborough. Many thanks to him. We had a fantastic trip and were fortunate to do so many different things, go to so many different places and meet so many interesting people, some of whom we visited at their own homes.

The top things were:

Spending time with Emily and Robbie
Visiting Havelock North where Rachel and Bill are going to live
Helming the Tucker Thompson in the Bay of Islands
Cruising on Doubtful Sound
Watching Jensen win the Australian GP and the whole GP meeting
Watching the sunrise and sunset at Ayers Rock and the whole red centre experience

Would we go back? You bet!

Singapore, another GP city circuit and cats that fish in the night

What a city Singapore is!. We arrived late on Tuesday night and spent the next day on a city tour which included the fabulous orchid section of the Botanical Gardens and a trip on the Flyer, the Singapore version of the London Eye from which you can see the start finsh straight and pits of the GP circuit directly underneath.

The next day we went to the Batttle Box on Fort Channing, an undergound WW2 bunker from where the decision was made to surrender to Japan in 1942, a very moving place with excellent animatronics. Last night we took the Night Safari tour a night time tour of jungle with wild animals visible in very low light conditions. We saw many different animals including rats the size of sheep and cats that fish, really.

Today we visited the National Museum of Singapore, a fabulous building witha new extension where we saw the history section and an excellent display of the french haute cuture and theatre costumier, Christian Lacroix. which was stunning. We are now getting ready to fly home after a superb trip.