Friday was slow to start partly because we had been late to bed the night before. It was two in the morning before we crawled into bed.
We decided though that we would go for a walk around McCritchie Reservoir, which the tour director had found in a magazine. The journey was one of the longest we have made on the tube and then we had to find a bus to drop us off at the entrance.
All of this was achieved without mishap. The walk into and around the nature trail was really interesting, although we only walked two kilometres on a path through the jungle and then back again on a board walk by the lake.
We saw colourful butterflies, monkeys, a giant lizard, a squirrel and a heron as well as several fish and a couple of Terrapins, so all in all a good nature trail which gave a good idea of what local vegetation was like before it was cleared away to make room for this very modern city.
We retraced our steps home and went vegetable shopping in a local supermarket and as we left there the heavens opened and we were caught in a tropical rain storm within three or four minutes we were both soaking wet and having got that wet the walk home could honestly be called a sodden one. A complete change of clothes was required.
Singapore has realised that it needs to protect both its green areas and its old buildings so that on a walk like today you can feel that you are not right in the middle of a sprawling metropolis and that you have found an oasis of calm. All in all we walked about five or six kilometres and we had a great time so who could ask for more?