Day 1: to Singapore

Blog 1:  24 June 2012 

The day before lift off we had a lovely ‘midsommar’ luncheon at Emma’s – potatis & dill, beetroot salad and meat (or quorn) burgers!  Followed by blueberry flavoured tea and ‘Emma’s Cake’ a yummy cake topped with icing and heaps of strawberries – it was very Scandinavian! 

Emma Cake!

Just to get us in the mood!

We had some games of kubb, with Karina, Emma and myself, all trying to help Matias win at least one game – but it wasn’t to be.

Kubb team

So a late night was followed by an early morning - the last of the packing was completed and soon we were zooming out to the International airport – via the port & cruise ship, but that’s another story!

It was great to have lunch with our send-off crew and to have a few last minute hugs and cuddles from MissE and then onto the escalator down to the check-in area. 

  

And off on the plane for the first leg of our trip – to Singapore!  Bit miffed that we didn’t get the seats that I had paid and booked on-line – will need to follow up that!  As usual there was a meal to start off – only an hour since we had lunch, but hey – why not!  In fact both the meals were quite edible. 

The flight was a bit bumpy in places – especially when I went to the loo!

 This time, I easily worked out the touch screen tv and watched Ewan McGregor introducing salmon to Yemen.  Bit lame really!  And I listened to some great gypsy Italian music – quite nice. 

We had 4 hours in Singapore, which was a bit boring, shops are all the same and we added some calories at Starbucks.  So far, no dramas!

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