Singapore

People everywhere and all on the move in Changi.

 

 They are serious about recycling.

Cable car to Sentosa Island

 

One of the Worlds best toilets on Mt Faber at the cable car turn around.





Cruise ship terminal in Singapore.

Sentosa is one giant fun park.

 

The bridge that doesn't allow bicycles.

We get around.

 

Our trip home

Our First taxi the wrong one and our second in the background

 

 



The early arrivers including Carol.

Yes more than an hour later and we and our bikes are the last ones .

 

Our Plane amid the smog and pollution.

I am still trying to get this shot right.

 

 

 

 

 



 

Changi Airport

We are about to start our second last leg and last flight. Carol is off having a shower in the Ambasador lounge as I blog away. I had a swim today at Santosa Island and a shower just by the way. Our flight departs from terminal 3 at 0:45 Monday. Singapore is an amazing place it is wall to wall shopping except at Tanah Merah MRT. Changi Airport is enormous it is 10:30 pm and the place is almost all open the only shop shut is the Worlds largest Lifestyle store,,,the only one I wanted to window shop in. Our last leg will be the 5 hour drive home to Miles and our lovely comfortable soft/firm bed. The power has been off at home for the last month so the fridge and freezer are both empty. We will have to do a shop before we get home. Richard Carol's son will be picking us up from the airport and then it will be off to get Henry and then over the Great Divide and West across the Darling Downs to HOME Miles.

Singapore photos to follow when I get some time.

Heading South, Vietnam to Singapore

Well we are all packed and fully fuelled for a another day of taxis, airports and planes. We just hope they accept our quality box creation/ packing style.

Scooter Videos

Below is a short selection of the best videos of our scooter trip around Hanoi. It is our attempt to show you just how exciting the traffic flow is. Some are short and some are shorter.

 

 

Bikes all packed ready for the flight home

 The end of any trip always invovles a lot of packing and I hope Carol has done it all properly.

Our two bikes are in the cardborard boxes / envelopes in the corner that we hope the airline will accept.

Hanoi Easy Rider

Well we finally got some fine weather and so off to the scooter hire we went and got ourselves a little Honda. Check out our day. We filled it up and it cost $3.50.  We then headed off to the Long Bien bridge a dual train/cycle bridge. Next it was the one of the many local towns around Hanoi.  There are stacks and then back to town over the next bridge. Then off to a sector where we hadn't been before through the maze of one way streets that is Hanoi.
 Now there are no tourist maps that show the traffic flow so it has been a facinating challenge trying to navigate not knowing if it is a one way street.
All was going well till I knowingly felt the rear starting to drift. I am so glad it was not the front as that may have had worse consequences. So we did stop and a kind man got out his pump and so pump I did but to no avail. He pointed us to a section of town but before we had a chance to push the scooter another man came to assit us so he pushed the scotter to his repair stand. It consisted of foot pump, a small stool, a small tin box of tools and a bowl almost full of water. No he couldn't help either as we had tubeless tyres.  At this point Carol noticed we were opposite the Australian Embassy. Surely they had a pair of pliers and some fencing wire for us.
 So now I pranked the Scooter Hire company and they rang back. Yes the man on the street would lead us for 40 000 VND to a repair shop. He then started to push the scooter off across the 4 lane road. I followed as Carol took some happy snaps of the Enbassy. I looked back and couldn't see my love so I ran back to the corner and collected Carol. We ended up at a proper motorcycle trye repair shop and after some phone calls and moreViettel phone credit the job was done. While all this was going on Carol had ordered a lovely lunch from a totally Vietnamese restaurant, no english menu.

 Our lovely automatic scooter

 50cc Automatic scooter $10 a day

 

 Honda 250 XR $50 a day

 On the table minus rear wheel.

 The valve stem seal was screwed.

 A workshop with a mirror ?

 6 lifts is a big operation.

The tyre shop with client waiting lounge on the footpath.