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Australian Expats love Singapore

Wine Angel

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Australian Expats love Singapore, and there was rain, wine & food in abundance when I was visiting friends in 2007. Anne Lacy worked at Parkview Square where the wine Angel would fetch our preferred tipple raising herself high on the end of a hook.

Up she goes

Australian Expats love Singapore

Quite an interesting method of collecting your wine choice.

Too much red wine is never enough

Australian Expats love Singapore

That’s Duncan Paul on the left, Anne Lacy, David Herd, Kate Paul and Steve Bates.

Sadly after a long battle with cancer we lost Anne in March 2017, RIP.


 

Parkview Square

Australian Expats love Singapore

    A rather imposing Singapore building.

Boat Quay Singapore

Australian Expats love Singapore

    This is the place to go in Singapore for world famous chili crab, make sure you haggle on the price.

Boat Quay Singapore

Australian Expats love Singapore

  Here is we eat the wonderful Chili crabs imported from Sri Lanka. 

Say no more

Australian Expats love Singapore

  Imported from Sri Lanka, they are often much bigger than we can get in Australia.    Chilli crab in Singapore is the world’s best, one my way to Istanbul on February 24th 2015 I have arranged a 9 hour stop over in Singapore so I can visit The East Coast Seafood Centre for another wonderful dining experience.  

 Yellow Lamborghini

Australian Expats love Singapore

  There are lots of wealthy people in Singapore.  

See what I mean?

Australian Expats love Singapore

  This is one guys private selection.  

 Sentosa in the rain

Australian Expats love Singapore

Tropical storms are almost a daily occurrence this time of the year in Singapore.

 When it rains it comes down in buckets

Australian Expats love Singapore

Huge drops of rain.

Sentosa casino

Australian Expats love Singapore

Resorts World Sentosa is an integrated resort off the southern coast of Singapore. Attractions include one of Singapore’s two casinos, a Universal Studios theme park, and a Marine Life Park, which includes the world’s largest oceanarium. The S$6.59 billion (US$4.93 billion) resort is the third most expensive building ever constructed. The resort will cover about 121 acres of land. 

Marina Bay construction.

Australian Expats love Singapore

  The ever changing Singapore skyline.

Morton’s Atrium Bar

Australian Expats love Singapore

  Anne, Kate, Duncan and Steve Bates. In Singapore, the Morton’s Atrium Bar has  long been one of the most popular bars in the city, thanks largely to the exceptional offerings of the “Mortinis Hours” of 5pm-7pm on week nights when the iconic Morton’s Martinis are attractively priced and served with complimentary filet mignon steak sandwiches.

Australian Expats love Singapore

Australian Expats love Singapore

  These happy people are some of Anne’s workmates. Anne is a director in a large insurance company while Steve plays golf and goes to lunch. 🙂  


Singapore rain wine food

Australian Expats love Singapore

  I did call this post Singapore rain wine food, well here is some more food. 🙂  

Let’s move on to Changi Golf Course

Australian Expats love Singapore

  Here is an Aussie Duncan Paul teeing off at Changi Golf course near Singapore airport.  

Old friend Steve Bates at Changi Golf Club

Australian Expats love Singapore

Changi is a reminder of Singapore’s historical connection with WWII, as the course winds through an area filled with mementos of the British presence like the soldier’s barracks, officer’s quarters, gun-emplacements and air-raid bunkers.
 

The view from Changi Golf Club

Australian Expats love Singapore

 

Steve Bates waits for lunch at Changi Golf Club

Australian Expats love Singapore

 

Steve enjoying a cold Tiger beer.

Happy waitress at Changi Golf Club

Australian Expats love Singapore

Now that’s what I call a big smile.

Steve Bates & Duncan Paul at Changi Golf Club

Australian Expats love Singapore

 

Both Aussie guys living in Singapore supported by their hard working wives. :)
 
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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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