Day 81 – Darwin to Singapore.

My final day in Darwin, I checked out just before 10am and put my bag in the storage room. I had 5 hours to fill before I got the airport shuttle at 3pm so first things first, was some breakfast. I walked over the road to Gloria Jeans and got myself some raisin toast (amazing) and some iced tea. The thing I’ve come away loving the most this time from Australia, ok I mean chocolate, is a Cherry Ripe. The packaging describes it as ‘ripe juicy cherries and coconut in old gold rich dark chocolate’ it’s just awesome. I like that and all of the Cadburys Marvellous Creations, the thing with them being new over here is that they are always on offer! Obviously I’ve loved other things but what is more important than chocolate aye? I then popped round the corner to book myself on the airport shuttle.

The weather wasn’t that good but it was still humid so I decided to pop to the Darwin Library to use their free wifi. It upsets me I’ve become one of those people. I finally managed to book my bus from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur; I researched some more on Asia and checked in online for my flight.

I slowly made my way back to Melaleuca to get my bag and made my way over to the transit centre to get my bus. On the way to the airport it started to rain, I think I got the best out of the weather whilst I was in Darwin, which was lucky!

On arrival the queue for check in was a little long and although I checked in online the woman wanted to see my onward flights, I wasn’t quite sure why but I had them on me so it made no difference. I then went through 1 security desk where I was ‘randomly’ chosen to have my bag swabbed, obviously nothing came up so I went through, I then went through another security desk and eventually got to border control, seems like a right nightmare for such a small airport. On the other side there was 1 café/shop, that was it. Finally boarded the plane, which took off on time. Landing in Singapore I gained an hour and a half back, so now I’m only 8 hours different from the UK, which I guess will become 7 on Sunday when the clocks change.

I got the airport shuttle, which dropped me right outside my hostel ‘Matchbox’ in Chinatown which was lovely for £4! I arrived there about half 10 and the room was pretty cool. So I was in a dorm but you get your own little pod to sleep in, even got a towel and the best thing is Singapore has UK plug sockets! YAY! It just means less adapters and also the wifi was pretty quick! I’ll put a photo of the pod below so you can see what I’m talking about, easier than trying to explain it.