{"id":4499,"date":"2016-04-10T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:12:26","slug":"setting-off-again-for-the-fifth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2016\/04\/10\/setting-off-again-for-the-fifth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Off Again For The Fifth Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here we go, travelling from over here, to over there.\u00a0 Not sure where over there is, but at the end of this jaunt in Eileen, I guess we’ll find out.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Singapore
Singapore from the top of The Flyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Just one Australian dollar can buy you an awful lot on a stopover from Sydney to London on Singapore Airlines.<\/p>\n

Yes, this year we didn\u2019t fly with Qantas and enjoyed far better service, tastier food and a break in the long journey taking us half-way around the world. Our $1 each bought us a transfer from the airport to the V Lavender Hotel, a night in a small but perfectly formed room, a day-ticket for The Hop On Hop Off Bus, a ride on the Flyer (like the London Eye big wheel), a visit to both of the enormous conservatories at the Gardens by the Bay, two plates of twelve yummy sate sticks with rice patty and bits of cucumber at Satay By The Bay and a river cruise down to the Harbour and back up to Clarke Quay. I added up the cost of what we should have paid for all this: a total of $237 each; what a bargain!!! We did pay for a second night at the hotel, to make the mini break a little more relaxing and I\u2019m glad we did, because we appreciated the transfer back to the airport and were both a little less exhausted when we got back on the plane for the thirteen-hour flight from Singapore to London.<\/p>\n

\"Singapore
Singapore through the spokes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The
The conservatories in the Gardens By The Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Lego
Lovely Lego flowers in the\u00a0Cloud Forest\u00a0Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The
The elevated walkway in the Cloud Forest Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Dahlia
Dahlia delight in the Flower Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The
The spectacular ‘super trees’ in the Gardens By The Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Looking
Looking back at the Gardens By The Bay; I love it there<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here we go, travelling from over here, to over there.\u00a0 Not sure where over there is, but at the end of this jaunt in Eileen, I guess we’ll find out.   \u00a0 Just one Australian dollar can buy you an awful lot on a stopover from Sydney to London on Singapore Airlines. Yes, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-stopover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}