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Batam Island

greg — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:38:26 +0000

We stayed until mid-afternoon on Batam Island, taking the ferry from Sekupang to Singapore and arriving about 5pm. We left our rucksacks in storage and went to Little India on the MRT for dinner. Then it was then back to Harbourside to pick up the rucksacks, and then out to Changi airport on the MRT for the 11:15pm flight to Paris and Rome.

the pool at Harriss resort Batam Island Indonesia

Humphrey B Bear might be dead in Australia, but he is alive and well in Singapore

Singapore to Batam Island

Judy — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:41:29 +0000

We took the ferry from Singapore to Batam Island in Indonesia. We did not get the ferry until late in the afternoon. The ferry dodged many ships passing through the Singapore Straits. We booked a hotel that is a resort away from the town of Sekupang. We will not see much of Indonesia in our very brief stay.

Dodging the many ships on the ferry ride from Singapore to Batam Island Indonesia

the view from indonesia back to the office towers of Singapore

Training walk in Singapore

greg — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:43:54 +0000

Mark offered to take us to a recreation area in Singapore. He runs an 11 km circuit around MacRitchie Reservoir most Saturdays and suggested that it would be good ‘training’ for us to walk it. I’m sure he was right – us walking the 12kms in hot weather at close to 100% humidity would be kind of like athletes training at high altitudes, don’t you think? We didn’t walk particularly fast, and we only took our small day packs, but it was a good walk and we were interested to see some jungle in the middle of Singapore. We watched a monkey take a packet of chips out of a girl’s backpack and run off to open them and eat a few, before leaving the packet and running away, only to come back a short while later to see what other food he could grab from someone else’s bag.

It poured with rain when we were 2kms from the end of the track so we got drenched, or in Greg’s case, he got wetter than he had been, but it did wash away the sweat.

On our 11km training walk along MacRitchie Dam

Singapore

greg — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:50:42 +0000

We arrived late in Singapore, and took aTaxi to Mark and Kellys house in Singapore. Nxt morning we did the usual tourist things, walked some of Orchard Road, went to Raffles, and ate lunch in Chintown. After that we were tired and read for a swim in the complex at Mark and Kellys house.

Sitting by the river at Clark Quay Singapore