Okay, it's later now, so news of our brief Singapore stop-over. In order to break the long journey to Melbourne, we decided to stop in Singapore for 12 hours, as Barbara hadn't been here before, and it made the two flights both overnight.

Being rather close to the equator, it was a bit warm, but we soon discovered that it was possible to get to many places by sticking to underground, air-conditioned, pedestrian areas.

We had a nice picnic lunch sitting in the shade of St. Andrew's Cathedral, a very spectacular building set amongst the many high-rise towers of central Singapore:

Having had that, we didn't then need to frequent the Subway (this is for Eddy):

But it was very pleasant sitting beside some of the many water features in the various malls:

And then in due course, back to the airport for the next overnight flight to Melbourne. A 'little' 747-400 this time, and rather tatty inside compared to the smart new A380: