ON THE LEAD UP TO THAT FAMILIAR ANNOUNCEMENT

This is a final boarding call for all passengers...............................

We had spent our last day and night at the Crowne Plaza which is situated at Changi Airport.  A favourite destination of ours for several reasons

• Very spacious rooms as we get a Club Room
• Great swimming pool
• Executive Lounge access
• One of the nicest buffet breakfasts in a hotel in Asia
• Excellent proximity to the airport terminals as you checkout, walk out down the ramp and along to the check-in counters

But before we walked out the door we couldn't resist in taking a few moments to capture the gorgeous floral decorations and ornaments in the hotel

Crowne Plaza - Reception desk.  The picture was mainly taken for the gorgeous ornamental cherry plum to the left decorated with Happy Chinese New Year symbols

The cherry plum in its full glory surrounded by potted chrysanthemums

Orchids appear at the tips of these wire branches which have been covered in taffata, with spathiphyllum at the base

Strands of almond blossom with little red velvet ties attached along the length of the strands

Changi Airport - Terminal 3.  More stands of almond blossom with two displays of flowers made up to look like pineapples.  Hamish modelling a "Minecraft" shirt thanks to an Argos purchase

A quick trip to the leaning tower found in the country shaped like a "boot"  Strangely though it is now sitting in the tropics!

Happy Chinese New Year to all our Chinese friends around the world.  The year of the Horse.  This is Bryn's year as there has been a full rotation through the calendar since 2002 when he was born

Finally, time to fly home to our lovely city Down Under.  We've seen some lovely new places, re-visited places we know, visited all our family and friends and met some new people but its always great to know that we live in one of the loveliest countries in the world and sometimes we forget just how lucky we are.

Thinking of our "Wicked" experience and those memories of Dorothy finally returning to Kansas after being rendered unconscious by a twister, "There's no place like home."

The old washbox.  A piece of fine German engineering which has been dealing with all the laundry ever since our return.  After all it wasnt just t-shirts and shorts that we packed we took all our wintery clobber / apparell.  The bonus is that after it's washed it can dry in the hot Australian sun within an hour, however, don't leave it out too long as it will fade.

Thanks for taking the trip with us.  Hopefully we haven't bored you all to tears as a blog is only a modern take on the slide night format.  At least with a blog you can simply switch off but those slide nights can turn into endurance tests while the enthusiastic returned travellers send their family and friends off to sleep whilst they are subjected to endless pictures of foreign shores.

THE END

Will there be a sequel?  Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!