Sorry we haven't written for a few days - everywhere we've been either hasn't had access or Blogger was down. Oh well here we are anyway in bustling Singapore. Just to update you on the last few days - we left Koh Tao for Samui where we went on another dive trip to 'Sail Rock' which has a vertical chimney. I felt bad again (all light-headed etc...) so Jen did the chimney with someone else. Vis was poor again so not a great dives diving all in all. After this we had a couple of games of bowling yesterday before meeting up with Pat again in readiness for our flight to Singapore.

We flew with Bangkok Airways on a propellor plane which is usually against all my morals but it was actually really good. Excellent service and with only 25 passengers (and 70 seats) there was more than enough space to spread out. There was also free beer and wine and an OKish lasagne.

So here we are in singapore - we're staying in 5* luxury once again (haha) here and it is wonderful - they upgraded us to a premier room (on the 11th floor, basically one down from a suite) free of charge and considering we're paying 100$ less than rack rate for one night (the other is free) it's as cheap as staying in a hostel for 2 nights...marvellous. Pat's got an ethernet connection in his room too so he's a happy bunny.

After a good night's sleep we trundled into town via Underwater World (shut - going back later) and the cable car (glass bottomed and all - gave us a great view of, erm, a couple of ferries) and met up with Helen and Rich. We had a Singapore Sling in Raffles and Burger King (Pat wants to compare fast food throughout the world) and got all exciting about our forthcoming campervan adventure. We've pretty much decided that our first 'trip' in Aus will be 12 days travelling via Campervan/Motorhome up the coast from Sydney to Brisbane via wineries, Byron Bay and Surfer's Paradis - me on a surfboard - do they make 'em big enough....? Rich appears to be either a) a fantastic outdoor adventurist, or b) a complete nutter (or both) as he proceded to tell us about how to skin a leg of lamb and cook roadkill (I've made that bit up) and the like...they've even got a stove and a couple of pans so we can cook potatoes too...should be a laugh. We've also kind of floated the idea of the four of us (less Pat when he's gone home) travelling through the outback to Western Australia...have to see how we get on for 12 days first we all agree...

So, tonight we're meeting up again for a few beers (they've gone off to do all the wandering around type stuff we did a couple of years ago) and we're off to play mini-golf and see the fishies. The next time I update this we'll be on the other side of the world...