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| Fun with Snoopy and the gang at the Charlie Brown cafe... |
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| A temple in Little India |
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| Singapore - the city of restrictions |
After enjoying our first night in a bed for a while, we hit the pavements
of Little India heading towards Orchard Road, the main shopping district in
Singapore. It took us a while to get to our breakfast stop in the oppressive
Singaporean humidity, but from that moment we didn’t look back. Munched through
a crepe and a milkshake at the Chalie Brown café, then popped our head into a
few shops but chose against buying anything, either due to queues for changing
rooms or consideration of the current size of our luggage! Couldn’t stay away
from the food for long though, and after taking in the architecture of Emerald
Hill Street we enjoyed a cold one and a pizza. Could definitely get used to
this sort of lifestyle!
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Found a big bike helmet
on the streets |
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| The glories of being back in civilisation |
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More fun and games on the
Singaporean Streets |
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| Marks and Spencer action - somehow avoided the Percy Pigs! |
From there it was what we thought was a leisurely stroll to the Botanic and
Orchid gardens, but ended up being a bit of a sweaty hike! Was a treat stepping
into the cool house for the high mountain orchids to get a bit of respite from
the humidity.
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| Marina Bay Sands |
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| Orchids |
A taxi sped us to Marina Bay Sands where we didn’t have time for the
Shoppes, as we were headed to the musical A Chorus Line that evening, after
missing out on it in Melbourne. Yes, Tony will always sniff out a good musical,
although have to say we weren’t massively impressed with this one…
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| The city by night |
After navigating the metro system back to Little India, perhaps tucking
into two curries at around 11pm was a bit greedy – one would have probably been
enough!
Key Learnings:
1. Charlie Brown cafes are a great tourist trap. If only I’d thought of that!
2. The Merlion in Singapore’s bay is it’s water spouting mascot built in the 1960s. It is a mythical creature
with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.
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| The famous Merlion |
3. The Marina Bay Sands
development is immense with 3 towers of hotel, the largest infinity pool in the
world ,its own lightshow, theatres
,ice-rink, bars restaurants, loads of Shoppes including a Louis Vuitton island
with tunnel back to the main mall, casino, Lotus shaped museum…the list goes on!
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