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We were on the cusp of leaving Singapore – though some of our admin was still incomplete – when Sedef got in touch with Andrew T., an old boss back in the UK, who now lives in Singapore. It was rather unlikely that we would hear from him since he travels a lot for work. By a great stroke of luck he was in town on our last day and we met up for a cup of coffee to catch up. This was rather fortunate for us, since he kindly offered us run of his house for the next few days, whilst he was away on business. After he gave us the tour of his ‘mini-mansion’, we thought we would need our bicycles indoors! Honestly it took 5 minutes to walk from the guest bedroom to the kitchen!! :p
So we spent the next few days being a pair of couch potatoes at Andrew’s house, watching DVDs, playing pool and computer games, and swimming in the pool. In fact all the things we have not had a chance to do since we left London. It was just us, the cat (a lovely Devon-Rex called Puka that we fell in love with) and a Filipino housekeeper who lived in a separate area of the house.
Having had such a great time with Dean and Jessica and staying at Andrew’s house, we didn’t want to leave Singapore. We hate to admit it but we were dreading Indonesia as our expectations were that it would be quite similar to India…
However not wanting to turn into ‘potatoes on bents’ we did finally get back on the road. On the way to the harbour to leave Singapore we bumped into (not literally!) a Japanese couple (Kazunari and Tomoko) on a tandem bicycle. They have cycled extensively around the world over the last 8-9 years. Alas we only had enough time to say hello and exchange emails!
