Some scene on the Morning Run today

Not a truer word said in jest!

5m swim!!

Hamish great job buddy!

Happy Days

Great run today

But really am certain I broke my big toe last night at football

Silly me for playing in bare feet!

On the boat back to Bali!



So far no chundering which is excellent news…Spider-Man on the telly keeping people happy too!

Buses, beverages, botanicals and bellowing bubbles of water

So probably fair to say today was the first real day in Singapore, and what more to do to start it all off then a local delicacy…ok only kidding, a local Starbucks just to make sure that the kids were fuelled ahead of a days sightseeing.

And onto the Big Bus tour of Singapore, which despite the heat and some slightly strange co-sightseers (by that I am not talking about the Robertsons) it was a terrific tour, very informative, and generally hit all the local highlights…and even shot by the Standard Chartered offices! Some of my co travellers were super cool though!

Then we went onto a real highlight of the trip, off to the main hotel haut, the much vaunted Raffles Hotel, where we hit up the Long Bar for Singapore Slings and to throw Monkey Nuts all over the floor, if you can believe, three of our company really liked the later, and two more distinguished of age liked the former! 

Everything was great though, from the drink, fun, and the kids having a go at shaking up the cocktails using the very big machine.

So back on the bus which took us further west to the Botanical Gardens, where we had a few lizard encounters, mixed in with turtles that the kids absolutely adored. Very warm walking back, but everyone managed to do it brilliantly well!

Back to Chinatown for a wash, more Chinese food, then onto the Marina Bay Sands complex to watch the 9pm showing of the fountains show, certainly very impressive, not sure why it took so long for me to know about it!

All in all a great first full day sightseeing, and great first day of Block Leave!

Fresh Feet and Fresh Fruit…what’s that smell?

So we woke beautifully freshly on Day 3…luckily the Jet Lag fairies had been relatively kind to us, and of course, following a Quick Look at the view from the room (see below), the only thing to do was hit the pool.

All five of us got in, of course three people in particular got more into it than others, but a good bit of acclimatisation for the coming days. Given we had a snack breakfast and it was a bit of a lie in, we then sorted ourselves for a bite to eat, which we did at Clarke’s Quay, an area I didn’t really know before this trip. A bit too western and touristy for my liking, but understand it. This was followed by a brief and hot walk around the river and Marina Bay Area, all got a wee bit much for Hamish, but other two did brilliant.

Then, it was time for a short sleep for all before heading on the tube to see Evelyn Low and family, for a great evening of food and what turned out to be interesting Durian dessert! Such a great time to see Evelyn, Brian and family again, although not sure I’ll even try Durian again, it really was pungent and just not the freshest taste…but glad we tried it. Super fun at a super fun venue!

 

Saturdays are not normally a good day to miss!

Well we finally arrived in early evening, having missed pretty much 3/4 of a Saturday, normally something you’d be quite unhappy with, but if you’re heading out for a three week holiday, these are the thing's you cope with.

As ever, Changi airport was unbelievably efficient, and then with a hop, skip, jump and not insignificant pushing of bags and buggies we made it to the hotel at Furama City Centre in the heart of China Town.

Which was a real bonus as five very hungry grits were then able to take on China Town and get themselves their dinners. Happy days, and happy bellies.

Then off to bed, hopefully not too jet lag fuelled.

Summer Holidays and Block Leave, here we come!

Finally, it has arrived, the much awaited, and long excited trip to South East Asia with the whole family. Not without first getting everything work off my table, which was quite stressful in itself!

Anyways, once that was done, and the incredible misses had finalised the packing, it was tooth fix central, pick kids up after last day of Year 5 (Angus) and Year 3 (Amber), it was time to get to the airport.

Amanda and Angus took the taxi with bags, whilst the two youngest and I tried the Superloop. Very efficient and cheap, but god was it slow. Kids were brilliant though, and usb power helpful!

A quick walk at Heathrow airport to meet Amanda and Angus who had successfully navigated the M25 and via a short stop for dinner at Leon and a play at the playground it’s was onboard our B777 Singapore Airlines flight to Singapore for the next 14 hours!

At 3.06am…on the plane finally!

Whoop whoop

Late night flight

Delayed to 3.30am for a Shanghai flight back to London this is a hard one to stay awake for! Just want to get on the plane, sleep and wake up back with Team Robertson!

Nothing else I could drink after a win in America

Budweiser for the Scotland 1-0 win over Haiti 🇭🇹 in the World Cup!

Nothing else I could drink after a win in America

Budweiser for the Scotland 1-0 win over Haiti 🇭🇹 in the World Cup!

Vietnam bound

Long old day today after 2am Scotland vs Haiti match and first win at World Cup for 36 years!!!

Saipan

A super weird old film!

What to think? 🍆

Home time!!!

Let’s go home Zebedee!

The long road home…

Starts here…4am

Chennai from the air!

Chennai Bound!

The tough life!!!

Vardy documentary

Really interesting actually, shows a fair amount about Human spirit, but also the ongoing class / opportunity divide of the UK.

Another trip…Bangalore

Via Virgin Atlantic Upper Class

No power on the plane right now

Having to do a reset of the entertainment system!

Go around…

Not something that happens too often does it!

Broken Tooth

Back in the reception of dentist only 6 weeks after fixing tooth as it then broke 🦷 I really hope no payment required!!!

First Monday of BST

No harder morning to wake up!

Why are so many grown adults having Hot Chocolate

Literally like 5 people in front of me at the coffee shop today; warming up their innner child before work?

Half Term

Can't believe it's spring half term already, surely wettest half term there has ever been; Saturday a nice break from it; but let's see what happens going forward!

Off Wednesday for some time with the gang!

Test

#doesthiswork

Moody evening

Very much a wet and random night! Been at Sutton United for a 'fighting' draw; and late home for a too short sleep!

Long time

Kingston

Had to head over today for some Dentist reviews…all good there!

Jon to walk around Kingston a few shops missing, suppose sign of the times but just a really nice place to wander about!

Actual sunshine!!!

After a whole month of rain it appears; some sunshine!!!

This tickled me today!

Happy New Year

Back to work and back at it!

Course this is an airport!

Doha Qatar! 🇶🇦

Yum!!!

Home time!!! 🤤

Coolest room key ever!



Welcome back to Malaysia I guess!

🇲🇾 

Fuck sake

Landed like 20-25 minutes ago, stand taken so just sitting here like lame fucking ducks!

Ok back to KL we go!!!

Loooooong day!

To Changi

Looong day

Singapore

Here we go; back again!

My chariot down to Singapore

Too early for Christmas!

Thanks Starbucks!!!!

Trip again

KL with a detour to Singapore just after the mid week!
Not really up for the trip, but here we go anyways!

30 mins to landing!

Not long now!

SCB Poland

Lovely modern offices in heart of downtown own

Landed

Hopefully not super long to get to my bed!!!!