Well .... from that ... this post takes courage (
"Asia for beginners" 
) .... our next trip has a week stopover in SIN both out
and back .... with 6 days in SYD in between.
Shame about SYD ... but we felt we should make the annual pilgrimage with my cousin being an ex-GovGen (yes really - once had to explain to my Aunt who didn't understand these things that he "was the Queen" (
"he can't be the Queen - the Queen has a bag" ) when she told me that I had to go and stay -
) .... BKK is for some ... SIN is good enough for me.
It's a pity you didn't visit your cousin whilst he was still the GG, you would have had the best room in Sydney at Admiralty House. Now that would have made a great TP