As it was going to be a long day today with a checkout required by noon and a flight not leaving until 10.25pm we were able to move at relatively glacial pace in everything we wished to do today so started off with a late breakfast followed by a final repack of the suitcases before, around mid morning moving cases down to the foyer and entrusting them to the hotel efficient staff for the day.
Having done so and handed in the room door card we took the MRT from City Hall to Tiong Bahru in the hope of seeing some old housing. While we couldn’t find any we did find the wet market and food court, the food court buzzing as it was now around lunchtime.
With the body temperature starting to rise we decided to head back to the MRT and go to Marina Bay Sands to get into an air conditioned environment. This centre is high class with all the prestige shops, some with more than one outlet, throughout. We walked down one branch of the complex and it was high value watch shops one after the other.
Around mid afternoon we decided to go back to Marina Square to see whether the balloon display had been completed and as luck would have it, it was. I never imagined that we would be so engrossed looking at balloons but we were as it was a wonderful display.
It was then a walk back to the hotel to pick up our bags (all the time following the Warriors game – Up the Wahs!) and getting a taxi out to the airport. We struck a taxi driver who wanted to talk about his medical history which was interesting in that we have never found Singaporean taxi drivers to say more than a few words.
We have now checked in and had dinner and waiting for the next 2.5hrs to pass before we start the last leg home.
A fabulous holiday in a very different part of the world will now start to be a memory, but a memory that we hope stays with is for a long time!
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