Month: August 2022
Walking Along Singapore River
No matter where you go in Singapore, there seems to be something that is interesting. At the moment, it’s a little hard to get around parts of the city as barricades and caging are being erected for the F1 street circuit race that will be held at night starting on September 23. The streets around […]
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War Time Memories in Singapore
Singapore was significantly impacted by Japanese invasion in 1942 during WW2. At that time, the British Empire was so extensive around the world that the sun never set on it. Singapore was the jewell in the crown of the Empire. Today, we hired a car and driver tø take us on a tour of three […]
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Exploring Some of Colonial Singapore
Today, we were planning to go to the splendid Jurong Bird Park but we found the it is not open until Thursday, Instead, we visited the National Singapore Museum and took a walk around the old civic area of Colonial Singapore. The modern history of Singapore began in 1819 when Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles […]
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Our Day at Marina Bay Park.
We left our hotel this morning by descending down four floors (storeys) to the main entrance. . Throughout the lower floors a number of bird cages are placed each morning by the hotel’s “bird keeper”.. These contain a variety of songbirds that can be heard all through the breakfast area and beyond. They make you […]
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Singapore’s Botanical Gardens
We decided to take it easy and even if we get to see only one major sight each day while we are in Singapore, we will be happy. It wasn’t raining this morning so, after breakfast, we set off in a taxi to Singapore’s Botanic Gardens. These are not the new gardens at Marina Bay, […]
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Travelling to Singapore
We are now in Singapore, for a delayed celebration of our 50th wedding anniversary. I was interested to see just you easy air travel has now become to here after Covid. We checked in (Singapore Airlines) about 2 1/2 hours before our flight and had some pleasant time in their lounge at Melbourne before boarding. […]
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A Reunion With My Old Mates
I spent most of last week in Bendigo attending a reunion of my Army unit from Vietnam. We originally planned it for last year but the borders being closed due to Covid beat us and we had to defer it until this year. In 1987, the then Prime Minister (Bob Hawke) declared that August 18 […]
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We Are Celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary
Yesterday was the date in 1972 that Jill and I were married at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Box Hill. The Vicar, a crusty old time priest said, when he found out that I was a Methodist and Jill an Anglican, “Mixed marriages don’t really work”. Well, here we are still together (very happily) after […]
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