G´day and Moi

Once we had been let into Singapore, with Lou disguising a growing fever at immigration, we were on the home straight. Singapore is slick and expensive compared to everywhere else we've been - for instance the metro makes London seem very clumsy. All this meas that we paid a lot for one night in a doss house, and while Lou slept, I went to see the city. The doss house was strangely close to Lou's old company's Singapore office, which is called the batman building (pictured). The Singapore zoo night safari was excellent, including visiting the bats in their enclosure as they flew around my head. The next day I looked around the Wharf and Chinatown where I sampled some excellent pork and chestnut wantons steamed in banana leaves before heading back to take Lou to the Airport. It was a quick visit to Singapore, but but the time we left I realised I was also catching the fever, so we were greateful to have someone to stay with in Sydney.

Otso and Paula, our local Finnish hosts, had bought some tea and No Frills bread in preparation for our arrival, but hadn't bought any ear-plugs to insulate themselves against my feverous snoring. We proceded to use every ounce of tissue in their house to wipe our noses and mope around infectiously, complaining about the cold. Otso and Paula live in Newtown, South Sydney and there are plenty of bars and restaurants, so much later on Saturday we went out for a meal, which was 4 times bigger than anyone would have eaten in Asia and had more potato than I'd had in two months. Our stomachs adjusted as quick as they could and I still managed to eat most of it.


After a day of hiding indoors we went around Sydney with Paula and have some typical photos of Sydney just to prove we're really here. We still didn't really know where we'd woken up, but we planned to look around more and prove it - So far, we have taken the ferry to Manly and eaten fish and chips on the harbour whilst being called poms. Seems like Australia.