Crossing Continents

We slept in a bit and packed and cleaned before getting a taxi to the airport. Farewell Rome, we had the best of times. After checking in we had some surprisingly good and well priced Asian food. We flew out mid afternoon. A cruisy 5.30 hours flight, many chard’s and a spare seat in between us to help us relax.

We arrived in Dubai around midnight, our next flight left 80 minutes later. There was a bus that took us kilometres across the airport, then a train and, we had a 20 min walk to our gate. It was a massive task and we got there during final call. Was a stressful connection. Our seats this time were shit. A very crowded flight and we were in the dreaded middle section. Only 7 hours so it was bearable and we arrived in Singapore about 12.30pm. Immediately the organisation and cleanliness struck us. We breezed through and caught a taxi. After the chaotic traffic and driving of Greece and Italy it was amusing to watch courteous, rule following drivers.

A 5 star hotel for our final night. The Mandarin Oriental Singapore. We are on the 13th floor. A lovely spacious room. Good views. Of course the one thing you should not do in this situation is sleep.  so what did we do? Yep  you guessed it, we both fell asleep, just for 3 hours. We were woken up by very loud thunder and torrential rain.
Our deluxe bathroom has a decent looking shower. After taking turns to test it out, it was declared the Rolls Royce of showers. The showers to destroy all showers to come, but so so worth it.

Feeling refreshed we went to the Cherry Orchard  for a set menu called Heart. The food and service was impeccable. A photo of the menu and each course follows.

Since we are almost doubling our spending for the entire trip in one night, we continued the trend and had a Singapore Sling by the poolside bar. So nice to sit and look at the views. It was a lovely clear night with a nice breeze. Excellent spot.

We even got a selfie to celebrate before heading back to watch some television and see whether we stuffed our chances of sleep with the too long arvo snooze. One more day.