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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 10October2025: A Gringo and His Singaporean Dollars Are Soon Separated

Singapore 10October2025: A Gringo and His Singaporean Dollars Are Soon Separated We met a few fellow tour members in the lobby of Singapore Shangri-La and decided to have a Singapore Sling at the landmark Raffles Hotel as after all that cocktail was invented there. We took a taxi to the Raffles and followed the lobbyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 10October2025: A Gringo and His Singaporean Dollars Are Soon Separated”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Singapore 10October2025: Garden of Eden at Singapore Shangri-La

Singapore 10October2025: Garden of Eden at Singapore Shangri-La After breakfast up to room to smear on sunscreen and take it easy. We arrived a day before our tour commences to help acclimatize to the time difference. Feel groggy but not excessively so. To the left of the reception desk are some very impressive gardens, gorgeousContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version): Singapore 10October2025: Garden of Eden at Singapore Shangri-La”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 10October2025: Breakfast at Singapore’s Shangri-La Beyond Belief: Dazed and Confused With a Happy Gut

Singapore 10October2025: Breakfast at Singapore’s Shangri-La Beyond Belief: Dazed and Confused With a Happy Gut So much for the fantastic sleep even with the little white pill. Woke up at 02:30 and 05:30. Dealing with a 12 hour time difference. Stumbled down to breakfast and the bright colours of the breakfast dining room Line RestaurantContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 10October2025: Breakfast at Singapore’s Shangri-La Beyond Belief: Dazed and Confused With a Happy Gut”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):SINGAPORE ARRIVAL 9October2025

SINGAPORE ARRIVAL 9October2025 Arrived in Hong Kong from Toronto late afternoon. Beaten and bedraggled after 15 hours on Cathay Pacific. Huge airport. Boarded Cathay Pacific for a 3 ½ hour flight to Singapore. Bulkhead seats. Bizarre curry chicken over rice. Close to spoiled fruit salad and browned lettuce with processed ham slices on a bedContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):SINGAPORE ARRIVAL 9October2025”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

THE TOUR DIRECTOR: The glue that binds the group together Your tour will have a tour director travelling with you for your entire tour present when you arrive up to your departure and handle all administrative details in between. Part drill sergeant. Part parental figure. Part diplomat. Caregiver. Interpreter. Friend. Part object of blame. TheContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE WINDBAG The windbag never stops talking. To fellow travellers. To the tour guide and director. To anyone fortunate to have been born with ears. Then those long-complicated questions with a microphone in hand on the tour bus. Digging into the minutiae and the weeds with questions of importance only to theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE COMPLAINER There may be a fine line between a realist and a complainer. Reality can be unpleasant and deserves commentary. And the deeper the swath of reality in the tour group it’s not complaining but a commonly held perception of reality. It can be a “team builder” in corporate double speakContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version) GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT

GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT Yes, the quiet ones often demeaned as timid and aloof lacking social graces. Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling and recharge their batteries by being alone. Introverts do not thirst interaction. And it could be that introverts are possibly extroverts but for a limited periodContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version) GROUP TOUR PERSONALITIES: THE INTROVERT”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

Group Tour Personalities: The Extrovert Extroverts are easy to spot. Friendly. Willing to approach and chat you up. Not so much they are innately friendly, but they simply can’t help themselves. Not to be exalted over introverts. Just a different personality. Moderate extroverts are fine with me and thank goodness on this tour and theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”

RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)

GROUP TOUR: PERSONALITIES IN THE MIX Some group tours are for specific groups, members some of which are known by each other but most are an assemblage of strangers. For example I went to Southeast Asia with university alumnae the majority on this trip from Canadian universities. I did not know any of the 16Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”