Day 79 Changi prison

Tuesday 20 March

I managed to remember to take some pictures of the breakfast lounge on the 14th floor this morning.

This was our last day in Singapore and there were so many things we had not done. We took a few moments to decide where to go.
Following on from  yesterday we decided to visit Changi Prison Memorial. This is right out to the East near the current prison and the airport. On public transport it took over an hour to get there, but we still had money on our ez link card so we took the MRT to changi junction then hopped on the no 2 bus which stopped right outside the memorial.
The museum itself is free but theres an audio tour at $8 each that we chose to get. It was interesting and at the same time horrifying at what people went through during those 3 years from 1942 to 1945.

These murals were paimted on the chapel wall by a POW

This one only has part remaining as a door destroyed the rest

The original artist survived and came back to Singapore to repaint them in the museum

Memorial chapel

Candlesticks made of  nuts and bolts and scrap metal 

It wasnt a big place but we did our normal thing of read everything so it was gone 3pm before we emerged.
Theres a restaurant on the premises so we just ate there. The food was good and not too pricey.

We decided it was too late to do anything else major but I wanted to go back and see a glass dragon ornament by Tittot which I'd  seen on our first day in Singapore. Tittot is an expensive brand. We headed home via Orchard Road to see it again. Jono was not as enthralled and I wouldn't buy it if he didn't like it so we left it. We looked for a different dragon statue but I couldn't  find one I liked. I'm surprised there aren't  more statues  of dragons around, we couldn't  find them in Vietnam either.

Jono practising his chopstick skills on Orchard Road

Our last MRT journey still left us with a few $ each on our cards so it was definitely better value tobuy normal ez link cards and not tourist ones. Tourist ones would have cost us $60 and we would have had to find somewhere to get back the $20 deposit which wasn't  possible at Newton where we needed to end up. We actually spent $32 on the ez link card and had some credit left but as the card is valid for 5 years theres the chance it can be used again in the future as well.
We exited the station to find the heavens had opened and a river was flowing from the sky. We stood and watched for a while in the hopes it was going to ease but it seemed set to stay so we opened my umberella, wrapped our arms arou d each other and huddled together as we set off.  Even if we had had the biggest golf umberella possible though our feet would still have been soaked, the pavements had turned into streams and it was impossible to step any where other than in flowing water.
Then the water just cascaded off the umberella and soaked our backs too.
We spent the evening drying shoes with a hairdryer and trying to get our clothes washed and dried in our pretty ineffectual drier before packing them for our flight the next day.