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
Safe travels!
(and for the record you two are the world’s easiest houseguests! Welcome anytime!)
Thanks Kelly, and thanks so much for your hospitality – it was so wonderful to see you and get a glimpse into your new life. I’m sure I’ll have dreams about that Chicken Rice, it was deeelish! Love and hugs to you all.