The Dougans' Blog

There are so many things that I could have called this post such as:

Whoever said McDonalds was the same the world over was lying
I had a pretty good steak on Singapore Airlines
Singapore Slings cost how much at Raffles?
Ew yuck was that really Chicken
Yes there is a theme here! And I’ll stop…

I chose to keep it simple and straightforward as Singapore…

We left Glasgow on Tuesday morning (won’t talk too much about the emotions of leaving or getting to the airport, number of tissues used etc. etc. But Gillian said on her Facebook Status that she could have filled a bucket…. I reckon that the bucket must have been pretty big by the time we arrived in Singapore…. If it wasn’t Anna with tears on the plane it was me… anyway enough about that).

We left Glasgow on BA1487 bound for London. We could only check-in 3 of our 4 suitcases at Glasgow all the way through to Singapore. The forth we had to collect at London and check-in again with Singapore Airlines (unless we were prepared to pay £42 per kilo for that forth bag with BA… I think not). Uneventful flight from Glasgow to London (excluding tears, of course), collected said 4th bag at LHR and transferred (easily I might add) from Terminal 5 to Terminal 3. Checked in 4th bag with Singapore Airlines and didn’t mention that we had already checked in 3 bags at Glasgow… that was a bit of a mistake!

Cleared Security at LHR T3 which was a nightmare bought some dinner and boarded the Big Bird for Singapore. Just before the doors closed the dispatcher came on looking for me… I was in trouble! I hadn’t told the check-in agent at Heathrow that we’d checked in 3 other bags in Glasgow for this flight… we had more than our allowed luggage. A quick show of an email confirming double luggage allowance for me (since I was emigrating) and all was fine again.

12 hours 30 minutes passed remarkably fast on SQ319, service was fantastic, food was great… we had beef for dinner and it was a huge chunk of cow… it was great! Service was fantastic and Noah was the best behaved child on-board… he did amazingly well! No need for my stress before hand then, mum?

Arrived in Singapore, cleared customs, collected luggage, into a cab and at the hotel within 55 minutes of landing in Singapore… that was fast!

Got to our room, unpacked a little, quick change (since it was 32 degrees in Singapore and we had dressed for the 5 degrees weather in Glasgow 19 hours or so before!) and then it was off out for dinner. Found a nice little restaurant close to the hotel. Noah had a Ham Omlette, Anna some Chicken and Prawn Fried Rice and I pushed the boat out (after checking that the boat had no nuts) and had Beef Hor Fun. Don’t ask me what it was, it had lots of ginger and tasted nice though!

Back to the hotel for a little night swimming with Noah.. he loved the pool, eventually!

Today, we headed to Orchard Road and browsed some shops, headed back to the hotel where Anna and Noah slept through the most spectacular storm. I was sitting by the pool as this storm came in. The temperature went from 34 degrees to 26 degrees as a result of this storm. We then went to Raffles for a Singapore Sling which didn’t impress me much. But the price impressed me even less… almost 35 Singaporean Dollars (£15) for a Singapore Sling and a Soda Water!! Then we headed for dinner which, to be honest I’d rather not talk about. Anna had risotto which was fine, Noah had a Pizza with Pineapple which he loved (thanks Uncle ‘Arc for introducing him to it… now I can’t eat his leftovers!) and I had something which claimed to be Chicken. It wasn’t.

I decided to grab some McDonalds on the way back to the hotel (if all else fails, right?) This wasn’t our first visit to McDs today, Anna and I had breakfast there (Noah ate his good old Cranberry Wheats which we packed for him). The first disappointment this morning was that they don’t do Bacon and Egg McMuffins in Singaporean McDonalds the second disappointment is that the ’sausages’ were ‘chicken sausages’ which tasted more like stuffing from the Christmas Dinner than sausages. Mix that with cheese and a muffin… not a good combination for breakfast. Couple that with me asking for 2 sausage and egg McMuffins, one without egg and getting two without egg. Oh well! Communication here isn’t my strong point… I ordered a Big Mac Meal tonight at McDonalds and got a super-dooper, 4 burgers in the bun, Ultra Big Mac Meal (by some other name). Oh well!

Enough typing… I came on to post photos not to type. Photos below. Enjoy

Time to go from this hot 27 degree balcony (its 11.36pm) into a lovely air-conditioned hotel room.

Love,
Allan, Anna & Noah