Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Last Post from Sing Singapore


Thank God I booked transport to the airport in Paris otherwise we wouldn't have had the opportunity to stand in the street with our luggage for 45 minutes trying to hail a cab! Finally got a cab with cabbie who seemed to be in the end stage of consumption-alighting from our taxi and scraping off the thick, viscous and purulent scrofulous phlegm from ourselves we checked in and went to the business class lounge reminiscent of the worst aspects of the black hole of Calcutta.Flight was comfortable enough-was delighted to discover that jerk passenger had managed to crush completely my new Panama hat with his bag!
Checked in to Marina Bay Sands and went to lunch of Chicken rice at the legendary Tian Tian.Back to hotel for pm sleep then out for dinner and beers at Brewerkz.
Day 2 Singapore was spent in a frenzy of shopping following a great Yum Cha brunch.Seafood dinner at the great Ah Yat Seafood restaurant(Thanks Andrew).
Day 3-Early morning swim in rooftop pool-brunch at Tian Tian-trapped inside food court by monsoon rains-forcedto eat 2nd portion of chicken rice. Unfortunately rain stopped-browsed more shops and am now sitting in lounge at Changi(airport not prison camp).









Too much chicken rice


Saturday, June 30, 2012

Moving at a snail’s pace, I kidney you not

 Wander around Ile De Cite and Ile St Louis-bset chocolate ice cream I have ever eaten at Berthillon. Walk around Marais area nad am almost converted to Judaism by prosletizing Hassidics-supplement lunch with falafel sandwich. Robyn finds kinky shoes-dinner at Allard-snails and huge veal kidney







Our apartment


View from our apartment

17th best turns out to be OK also


Metro to Louvre-only minor queue. See all the big ticket items amid throngs of tourists who all want their photos taken in front of the Mona Lisa. These artworks have celebrity status and are not there to be appreciated but to be seen with-what a bunfight! Especially liked the laws of Hannurabi which includes that any surgeon who stuffs up an operation shall have one hand cut off!What wisdom!
Dinner at Pierre Gagnairehttp://www.theworlds50best.com/awards/1-50-winners/pierre-gagnaire/ rated 17th best restaurant in the world, but doesn’t even have a Caesar salad on the menu! Go figure. Sublime meal-each course contained more ingredients than I would buy in year- Wines: Condrieu & Cote Rotie. About 14 desserts, all exquisite. Then invited into kitchen and meet Chef
Nice tradesman's crack


Nice set of jugs


The Four Nymphettes