Listening to the radio far too early this morning I heard a piece about Singapore. Singapore! I’d forgotten all about it! When David and I started cruising we used to do the world tours during the winter . On our first visit to Singapore we loved it so much we decided to spend some time there so we booked a week in one of the grand hotels. We flew there and came home by sea and I’d forgotten much of the detail till this morning. But it was worth remembering. We found a friendly taxi driver who ferried us around the places we couldn’t reach on foot. I had had a tutor in college who had worked there before the war and his descriptions had stayed with me...not least the days when the Brits had been imprisoned by the Japanese. His wife had died there and he had described it all through tears at times. We spent an emotional few days there before our cruise ship arrived to bring us home. I haven’t thought about it for years...so this morning I was revisiting some wonderful memories. David and I covered a lot of ground when we were first married...there were very many things he had wanted to do and felt reluctant to travel on his own. These memories were vivid this morning. His pleasure at seeing things all around the world with a fairly new wife made it all very special....good memories flooded back .....gosh we were lucky! Now on my own I still enjoy cruising....it’s one of the few holidays a woman alone can take. I’m told it will all start up again eventually after the flu pandemic has eased though I doubt if I’ll go far now. But the memories are all good. Thank you David!
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Your posting about Singapore reminds me of our honey moon when we took a trip around the world, 1990 was the year. We flew to Singapore and spent a week there, doing something similar to your tour with a tourist taxi driver. Than on to Melbourne and Sidney followed by New Zealand, Christchurch and Auckland and on via America LA, New York and Home. We did this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to places we'd never seen or experienced and also places we felt a connection with.
So, your memories have sparked some of ours. We were much younger, I was 40 and Jen was 37, so quite an active experience. We later went to Hong Kong before the British pulled out and many we met there were sad at what was due to happen the following year, 1997.
Now twenty years after that visit, Hong Kong is a dangerous place is seems. Chinese promises to the people being ignored and we having either no power to challenge it or no political will to so so.
My husband was offered a job in Hong Kong which we had to turn down because we had a very sick son. At the time we were disappointed but what is happening now is not good. It was not something we foresaw!
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