Overseas Travel
A Fateful Visit to Jurong Bird Park
My blogging has been disrupted by an unfortunate accident, so let me pick up the thread and get back to our days in Singapore. On Thursday, we took a taxi to the world famous bird park at Jurong, to the west of Singapore. I wanted to see their see their incredible bird aviaries and displays. […]
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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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Back Water Towns and Some History
We are heading back home to Melbourne, stopping again in Albury tonight. Travelling short distances like this each day gives us plenty of time in which to potter along and explore some history. After leaving Canberra, we detoured off the main highway to stop in Yass to see its historic railway station. Jill used to […]
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Back to the Silo Art Trail
The Covid-19 virus is impacting the lives of everyone in Victoria and Australia. We had planned a trip to Tasmania this week but we weren’t quite comfortable enough to head off to an island state where if anything serious happened, we could be stuck for a few weeks and unable to get home. We don’t […]
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We Are Finally Home Again
We finally arrived home from our ill-fated trip to the USA at around noon yesterday. Our five hour-flight from Dulles, Washington, departed at 5.00 pm on Sunday and connected with the fifteen-hour Qantas flight out of Los Angeles at 10.50 pm . That flight was a little over an hour late in leaving but arrived […]
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Our Final Day in the USA
We have reached Washington DC after taking two days to travel slowly from Asheville. We fly out of here on a 5.00 pm flight today (Sunday) which will get us home at 9.50 am Melbourne time on Tuesday, November 19.. Jill is bit nervous about the fight, but she is generally OK without any surgical […]
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We are Starting our Journey Back Home.
Our good news is that we now have confirmed flights out of Dulles Airport in Washington on Sunday evening (November 17). We will have a six hour flight on Alaska Airlines to Los Angeles and then a sixteen hour flight from there to Melbourne. Thank heavens for business class! Yesterday, we drove a short part […]
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