I’ve worked in a few airports in my time, and up until today the coolest thing I’d seen in one was the bowling alley at Incheon, South Korea (RIP- it only lasted a few years before they realised how utterly insane it was).
Today though we have a new winner- Changi airport has a flipping Butterfly Garden.
When I saw it on the map I assumed it was the name of a gay bar, but I went to check (for research purposes) and it’s a real-life garden full of butterflies. What a magical way to kill time between flights, you absolutely cannot be stressed out while surronded but butterflies- and that’s not my opinion, that’s science. Sure I looked a bit out of place in the leather outfit I’d slipped into (for research purposes), but people were mostly looking at the butterflies.
I’m currently sat next to the Koi Pond (also not a gay bar) and can hear a guy playing “Feelin’ Groovy” on acoustic guitar. It makes Doncaster International look pretty shabby I can tell you.
Butterflies eating pineapple. Just another day at the airport
gay
(come on, it was a tap in)
Did they have them proper big ones? they sure is big aint they.
By the way, I think you had your fingers in the way of the lens in that pineapple photo mate.
I’ll be at Changi on Saturday. I’ll have to check it out (for research purposes of course). I had the Koi Pond App on my iPhone by the way.
The magic of Changi is not easily explained in words. It’s like google and father christmas had a baby and it was an airport.
Did you go for a swim? Changi has a pool you know!
Although if I had anything over 2 hours, I’d leave and go to ECP Seafood Centre for some chili crab.
Last time I was at Changi, they even arranged for an England world cup qualifying match to be scheduled perfectly with my 2 hour stopover, so I was able to watch it in the bar. How amazing was that?
Hmmm I may need to go a few hours early to Changi tomorrow!
Were you on crack when you wrote this?
“It makes Doncaster International look pretty shabby I can tell you.”
If they had fish in British airports people would be catching them and holding them up to the camera to show their prowess in torturing creatures before putting them back to be tortured again by someone else. Only in the civilised lands of Singapore is such stuff viable.
Your blog shame is way better than your blogless shame
@MSG – I can only conclude that Swiss believes that this post is the greatest of all time, and thus he has reached his peak as a blogger. Anything more would be superfluous.
@King Badger – It seems fitting somehow that his valedictory post should conclude with a comment pertaining to both his profession and his beloved home town.
I’m dead bored of these butterflies now swiss, have you got nowt else?
Speak for yourself Dingle, I’m still coming back every day to relive the butterfly experience. Or should that be the butterfly effect!