Finals Fever!!

Who would have believed it, St Kilda again in Grand Final. Impossible to get on telly though and do I really ant to be at an Aussie pub in London at 4am on Saturday.

Singapore

We stopped off in Singapore for 24 hours to break up a 20 hour flight.

If you like mad, mayhem, bright lights, rammed in like sardines, and 100% humidity then by all means go, but it wasn't really my cup of tea. To be fair there were an endless succession of boutique clothes shops on Orchard Road, so still not my cup of tea.

Singapore's population is approx 5M, which is only 1M more than Melbourne. It feels waay more packed in/high rise though - I've since found out its the worlds second most densely populated "country", ceeding first place to Monaco.

We spent our day at Universal Studios on Sentosa. It was a nice treat for the girls and we went on pretty much everything - luckily the double roller coaster/upside down thing: Galactica was closed for maintenance. I do recommend the Mummy's revenge though. Backwards steeply swooping roller coasters aside some of the effects were pretty amazing.

Late evening we arrive at Changi for our final leg of the journey to the UK. Again we are on a Singapore Airlines A380. I admit to having flown business class with a few airlines now and they are all really similar in terms of great quality food, and nothing is too much trouble service. The Singapore stand out feature though has to be the chair: Its so ludicrously large that they have a large bolster/cushion, presumably to stop you sliding sideways. Ciara and I comfortably sat side by side for over 30 mins watching my "telly".

Next stop Britain.