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Orchard Road
The day started with a more than adequate breakfast in the hotel and then we headed on foot in search of Orchard Road, the main shopping district in Singapore. Looking the directions up on the net showed it was actually just a straight walk from the hotel. I estimated the walk to be thirty minutes…
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Singapore for a Sling
A screech of brakes, flaps up at maximum and the jet engines screaming in reverse we hit the tarmac in Singapore, normally a place I pass through but this time I was staying a few days. This trip is different, instead of flying off for business I am on holiday with Al, and we going…
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Underground Rugby
The train roared in, appearing to go right past the platform, and then stopped almost instantly. Hundreds of faces pushed flat against the windows bursting out as they doors opened. Orderly lines of commuters on the platform turned into a stampeding mob mauling its way to the carriage filling every gap created by those tumbling…
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2009 Easter at Boondooma Dam
The plan this Easter had been to canoe up the Noosa River and go Bass fishing, we waited until the last minute on this plan. We had six of us going with Chris and Barb flying in from New Zealand and Kirsty and Jen coming with us also. Easter started the 10th April and the…