As we have been to Singapore so many times in recent years, there was no need to set the alarm for an early start, though the vibrations as we docked would have woken us anyway.
BUFFET TOUR – PART 3
We have covered the two main hot stations and an update on one or two of the options. As I said earlier, I hadn’t seen chips before, but they do in fact rotate with the hash browns or sauted potatoes etc. I also overlooked the hard boiled eggs.
Anyway, just beyond the two stations they have a chef, who is best described as the omelette chef and he’ll put whatever you want into it and cook it just for you. He also he does the fried eggs. These days he tries to keep up with the demand for poached eggs from the kitchen, plus the daily speciality eggs, such as ranchero, Benedict, Florentine, fried egg dropped into the centre of a slice of French bread etc. This is where I get my fried onions cooked most days.
Alongside is the toast station where they generally keep feeding in, plain white or brown bread, but if you grab a slice of a speciality bread or a bagel for example, they’ll happily toast it for you.
Tomorrow – the last of the hot stations. How can there be more I hear you ask?
The second photograph is NOT my breakfast. This is Alex’s version of healthy. The glass of granola and yoghurt is fine. But look carefully under the muesli and you may just see he has hidden a Danish pastry…
SINGAPORE
I have no intention whatever of covering the history of Singapore as either you know it already or you are just reading this to learn about ship life – or you realise you have found a great insomnia cure.
Last year, I mentioned that it took two hours from deciding to get off the ship to getting to the Eye. Whether it was a Princess initiative or a Singaporean one, I really don’t know, but this year was so much better.
Having decided to get off a bit later (around 10am), we walked straight through immigration and although last year, the queue for the shuttle to the local MRT railway station was long and slow, this time, they had several full sized free shuttle buses (8?) running to a large mall – Millennium Walk. Much better, so we did that, though we had been prepared to get a taxi. As the mall was modern and expensive, we caught a taxi outside and headed for the centre of Orchard Rd – about an $8 ride.
The only item on Paula’s shopping list was dance shoes from number 150 Orchard Rd. It would help visitors a great deal if the various subways were better signposted and most buildings had a street number on them. Having somehow or other found ourselves on the opposite side of Orchard Rd and heading the wrong way, we did manage to head towards an area we know quite well – the McCafe on the corner of Scotts Rd. Down below is a great supermarket and an even better bakery, so although we were aware of the rebuilding going on, we managed to pick up a freshly baked light lunch, intending to grab a coffee – but the McCafe area was surrounded by boards and wasn’t accessible.
We looked on a street map and the only number was 268. We ended up heading in the wrong direction until we spied 350, so we did an about turn.
Ages later and with steaming hot feet, we found ourselves way down the street outside number 38! We gave up and grabbed a taxi back to the ship as Paula had had enough walking. Not many pics this time – but we did find proof that Ferraris are a genuine bird puller. The last pic is looking upwards from inside the Millennium Walk mall. Several large towers each with slightly differ colours. Very modern and attractive. The taxi back was only about $8 again.
Just the two of us for afternoon quiz. We didn’t win, but were quite pleased with our 12/20 - especially as the winners only managed 15.
We caught up with some of the others later on where we found out that Ros had broken a rib playing cards (honestly!). Therefore it behoves us to warn prospective cruisers, that if there is a metal arm to your chair and you have dropped a card on the floor, do NOT lean over the metal arm unless you are tall and/or have long arms.
As it was open dining, we opted for the buffet which at least meant that I didn’t have three bread rolls whilst waiting for the courses to arrive.
To deck 11 for the sail-away at around 9pm and like most others, we called it a day not long after and watched the TV movie – “Working Girl”.
Another day at sea tomorrow and grandson Noah’s 3rd birthday.
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