For some reason Travel Journals won't let me create a new journal so I'll have to continue in Australia until I sort out what's happening. I arrived in Singapore last night and am not quite sure what to make of it. On the one hand it has a number of Marks and Spencers, Dorothy Perkins and a number of other UK shops. (Though I donow have mixed feelings about this. When I was in Peru and was preoccupied with not being able to do my washing I had a dream that I went home for the weekend (!) and into a M&S and bought another T-shirt and I almost cried when I woke up to find that it wasn't true. Now I feel slightly depressed that there are so many Western outlets here - hundreds of Starbucks too - so does this mean that travelling has changed me?) [Oh God I have a freak next to me in the internet cafe. Why do they all gravitate towards me?] On the other hand it is noisy and busy and not (so far) very pretty. The hostel dorm is like a boarding school dorm (no bunks though - yay!)
Great flight yesterday - though I was a bit perturbed to read so much in the Australian newspapers about Qantas problems. I'm not keen on flying so I like it when there is something going on almost all the time so I can forget I'm in the air. And Qantas timed it all well, 10 mins in you get hot towels, then 10 mins later they come round with immigration cards, then shortly the entertainment starts, then you get your meal etc. Well organised. Had a fright at one moment though, when the pilot came on the pa and said urgently, 'All passengers and crew immediately return to seats and fasten seatbelts'. It's just turbulence, I thought, it's just turbulence. And it was. And we didn't hit it until 5 mins later. So why wasn't he just a bit more tactful? Watched 'I am Legend', has anyone seen it? (Don't pay to.) Then 'PS I Love You' which I liked but cried (and not just because Gerard Butler is so achingly handsome).
I am armed with a tree's worth of leaflets from tourist information now, so gonna go and find somewhere to have tea and decide what I'm going to do with my time here.
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