Singapore

I’m awake at 8am but when I try to encourage any other clan members to wake up my head is bitten off.  Finally hunger forces action.  De Hollandse Club is not doing breakfast due to catering changes so we decide to go to the Adam Road hawker center.  It’s very nice but the kids are still in weetabix mode so we move to the french cafe and have marble cake opposite the Botanical Gardens.

we use the Metro to Orchard and walk along Orchard road towards the sea.  A gentleman stops us to ask if we are looking for a specific shop.  We buy flip-flops for me, and then look for a food mall to find ice cream.  If you walk into a mall and can’t find the ice cream shop you ask the security guard.  He doesn’t know where to get ice cream.  2 minutes later he turns up to tell us where to go, how to get there and he even comes up 20 minutes later to check that we got our ice cream.  To say that generally people in Singapore are helpful is an understatement.

Jane wants to see the sea so we take the Metro to the Pier from where we have some nice views of odd buildings.

We eat in the Hollandse Club and go to bed quite early because it’s going to be a 5AM taxi pickup.