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Blooming marvelous!!
Posted by sally in Holiday, Pics & Movies, Singapore, Updates on July 18th, 2007
What do you do when you are on holiday in a city that you’ve lived in?? The touristy things of course! So we decided to go and visit the Orchard …oops Orchid Gardens, which, for those of you interested in visiting at some point in the future, are situated in the Botanical Gardens and NOT near the zoo as the Singapore maps suggest.
Was all very stunning. Did you know that the Orchid family of flowering plants is the largest in the world, comprising 10 percent of all flowering plants? And that bananas belong to the ginger family? Very informative trip indeed! Thereafter we had Singaporean hotpot for dinner at Dempsey road, where we basically had to boil all our own food, veggies, meatballs, the lot! (Did you know that the bright orange prawns that you eat are actually purple-grey in their uncooked state??) Was kind of fun, but think I’d rather pay someone else to do the cooking!!
Business is business
“Dear KLM Customer Service Manager, I’m writing this from row 14 on board your Boeing 777, which, if you knew your plane layout, IS NOT NEXT TO AN EMERGENCY EXIT! We kindly request that you refund the 2 train trips to Schiphol that we had to take in order to secure our requested seats THAT WE DID NOT GET ALLOCATED. Either that, or surprise us with some creative solution…” Fortunately, the air steward creatively bumped us up to business class, so Peter’s friendly ranting never needed to be sent off!! After our pampered flight and some luxurious sleep, we arrived safely in Singapore. Of course, the 6hr time difference meant that we were suitably jet lagged, so we were wide awake during the evening and spent the time walking along the Singapore River, before we had our first Asian meal at a floating restaurant on the river. It sure is great to be back in Singapore!
The holiday begins…
We woke up bright (and not so early) on Friday, to finish off the packing and to get onto the road to start our big post-INSEAD adventure! Of course, the fact that Thursday had been the grad party and the evening had been late and bubbly meant that packing lacked any real enthusiasm or speed. We eventually got on the road only an hour late bound for the ferry at Boulogne.
Unfortunately the car had other plans. After an hour it started to breakdance intermittently and strange fuel vapours seeped into the vehicle. It then VERY CONVENIENTLY decided to conk out completely when we were only 20km from the port. NICE! Of course, I had a road plan with Citroen, so we called them and Peter calmly explained that ‘le car (carre?) ne function pas’ (thankfully Spanish was his exit language 
!) and Citroen sorted everything out. Very impressive actually… we got to picnic by the side of the highway and explore the service roads of Berck in a tow truck – highly recommended! (We actually have some excellent pics of this great day – unfortunately there’s back in Europe with the other camera. We’ll have to post them in Sept when we get back!)
All goods have since been safely brought across the channel and are now sleeping peacefully in a Wimbledon storage depot.
And so the adventure begins…..
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