The Travels Of The RJs

Friday 24th & Saturday 25th April Singapore to Sydney Temperature Min 27, Max 33. Sydney Min 25, Max 25 17,557 steps Long gone are fresh fruit platters as we’ve had at many breakfasts as we start the last day of our holiday at Wink Hostel - Sienna chomping on a chocolate spread sandwich, Seb crunching a puffed chocolate cereal and me slurping on a sweet 3-in-1 sachet coffee. Perhaps it’s a good thing we’re heading home, though not until 2:10am (very) early tomorrow morning. Longer lie-ins and later breakfasts just about allow enough time to check out by 11:00am, leaving our single suitcase and 2 of the 3 small rucksacks in the small common area - don’t tell anyone that the passports and ipad, amongst other things are in those rucksacks. I’ve wanted to get to the tall metal trees in the SuperGrove within the Gardens By The Bay so its there we head via a bakery and the MRT (underground). We enter the gardens at The Meadow to see an installation called Planet. Giant Baby Floating is ...

Thursday 23rd April Singapore Temperature Min 25, Max 34 10,588 steps I had some plans or ideas for everywhere we’ve been on this trip without having much specifically locked in. Other plans just kind of appear. So it is when I’m looking out of our window at Wink Hostel and see a bus drive past with an advert on its side for the Singapore Golf Open starting today. I look it up and it’s on Sentosa Island, not far away and its free entry. Free entry is good, not just because it doesn’t cost anything - and this is true for any attraction - but you never know the kids level of interest once you get there, so when its free, you never feel compelled to stay and make the most of the museum / zoo / gallery or in this case, gold tournament. I also find on the map a nice looking beach 10 minutes walk away if the golf is a blowout. So with swimming costumes, suncream and bottles of water packed we Grab to the Serapong Golf Club about 15 minutes away.  Whilst this isn’t the Masters, this is a ...

Wednesday 22nd April Singapore Temperature Min 25, Max 33 18,318 steps When Sienna had decided on Wink Hostel we had forgone another place that had its own swimming pool but was in a less good location. So we agreed we’d seek out a good pool for a half day by way of compensation. But before we head straight there we head, with only a small detour, back to PInnacle @ Duxton as there’s definitely been no thunder this morning that would cause the rooftop walkways to be closed.  After paying our S$6 we ascend to level 26 where the walkway doubles as a running track 530m in length. It is shaped in a very uneven dumbbell, looping around buildings A and G. But the main event is level 50, we first look over the water by Sentosa Island where we will perhaps head tomorrow and on this side of the island the shipping container port, lorries being loaded with Lego-looking sized containers and stevedors at work.  Each bridge between the 7 buildings has a “theme”, from Lounge to Cottage to B...