Went into town on the hotel shuttle. Visited a new “attraction” called Miracle Garden which plumbs the depth of bad taste in its design and garishness – see what you think. Also saw the Penguins at the ski slope ( no, really……….only in Dubai !!)

Tomorrow, back to London.

This time arrived by air from Singapore. Landed at the swanky new Emirates terminal. 60 mins from landing we were here at the Atlantis Palm.

Smart followers of the blog will notice that it is a cheat on two counts: 1) it’s a photo of a photo, 2) I already posted this photo on my Far East Holiday blog in January 2014 when we boarded our ship in Dubai at the start of our holiday. 

At present 02.24, GMT (10.24 am Singapore time), we are about one hour into a 7 hour flight to Dubai on Emirates Airline. Anyone reading this blog in 5 years time will think this normal but we can use our iPads and connect to the Internet in flight; in fact, I am posting this blog entry from our flight.  Each seat is equipped with a tablet with which you can control the entertainment, seat position etc. 

We are allowed to use our mobile phones but no-one we know will be awake right now !
  
 

View from our 14th floor room.  You can see a pleasure boat on the Singapore river and, on the skyline the nose of the “ironing-board” sitting on top of the Marina Bay Sands hotel. We will be leaving at 07.00 tomorrow for Dubai. 

Singapore Airlines to Singapore