Welcome to Singapore and the Year of the Horse. We stopped a couple of days en route back to Australia and stayed with my cousin and her kids. A chance to be in a modern Asian city, which helped to mitigate the culture shock of leaving India. Funny moment: Visiting Chinatown just before New Year – Kirsty explained it would be crowded “but nothing like what you’ve come from”. Kids freaked – it was the most crowded place they’d been all holidays.