Hi everyone,

well, here we are in very rainy Singapore!

We go the train down from Tampin yesterday, entering our third contry of travel. Poor Pen wasn't very well yesterday and spent the rest of the day in bed, so it wasn't the best welcome to Singapore.

Our hotel is OK, but there's a large family in several rooms around us with kids running and screaming late at night, and our aircon kept sounding like it was about to explode all through the night, so sleep was rather disturbed..... but at least the beds are comfy!

Today we went to the Asian Civilizations museum, which was really interesting (but what could ever top the museum in Melaka that had a pair of Mohamed Ali's boxing gloves!), and had our lunch by the river. Well, darlings, then we trotted off to Raffles, to have our customary Singapore Sling in the Long Bar. Just as well it had a few shots of alcohol in it, which slightly took the sting out of the numbers on the bill.....but it was worth it (we think, but once the alcohol wears off we might think differently!). Raffles was lovely, the Long Bar had a great atmoshphere and we enjoyed chucking our peanut shells on the floor. We would have stayed for another, but that would've involved re-remortgaging our houses! Ah well, such once in a lifetime experiences are price-less (but not as far as the bank's concerned....)

Hope to go to the zoo tomorrow (and night safari) and if this rain continues we might end up having to wear our ridiculously large , sweaty & gorgeous ponchos!! Mmmm, what a beautiful sight...... We leave the day after for Cairns, and hopefully some better weather (although we can't really complain, given that most of our 6 weeks have been brilliant sunshine).

Hopefully we'll get some more photos on Flickr in a few days, so watch this space.

That's all for now folks, from a very nice but rather pricey Singapore (we really are hardened backpackers now, moaning about the costs that are still less than at home - except for Raffles....)

Toodlepip ol' beans, jolly hockey sticks, what, till next we "connect"....... about as posh as we can muster given our Raffles experience........

with grandest felicitations, (or rather, see ya soon)

Penny & Linda xx