28 March 2026
I got wined on
Singapore airport stopover
As predicted, my 7 hour flight was completely full of people who have a fear of drones and missiles.
Sadly, someone spilled a glass of wine on my new pants, some of which ran down my leg and is sloshing around inside my shoe. Great. It could have been worse, he spilled the entire glass by knocking it flying trying to climb over someone, but I think mainly secondary splashes in the vicinity of the primary impact area damaged my new pants. So now I both look like a hobo (as per normal) and smell like one too.
The good news was that I had a little girl sitting next to me which provided some elbow room, she did educational things on her ipad for the entire 7 hours and never made a sound (Asian children, always schooling). However I did not eat anything as everything smelled strongly of fermented grapes and various cleaning products which had formed a chemically dense fog and had perhaps stirred up previous vomit and other assorted fluid explosions the aircraft carpet has suffered from over the years.
Arriving at Singapore, I was thrilled to discover my next gate is as far away as possible, so I get to walk a complete lap, and have 2.5 hours to do so.
As you can see below, I visited both of the lounges available to me for my determined re-hydration efforts and also one shitty garden.
I took this photo at night back in November on my way home from Japan, the view from the far end of the main lounge, the one most familiar to Australians as all flights to Australia seem to leave from this side of the many connected terminals.
It was quiet in here. The lady making noodles to order had nothing to do.
I need a new bag / method to launder money cross border.
Apparently, this is the discovery garden. I have discovered it is mainly dead and not much of a garden.
Nearing the end of my lap of the airport now.
I promised a carpet photo, and here it is. Getting a bit old and shabby. The day they replace it all, I will immediately buy a ticket just to see it.
And finally, here is the OTHER lounge, the one rarely seen. Although I have been here once before. It was closed for ages during and post covid.
I need my next flight to be on time, so that I can attempt to make the last train out of Incheon airport and into Seoul. It is scheduled to be on time so far. Start rounding people up!