City Hall Singapore

Rise and shine, haircut to oneself given and it was off to the hostel I'd booked that was more centrally located in the centre of town. In between Lavender and Kallang, which was known to the locals as mini Thailand. Getting there was an easy enough find and although pricey it was quite a modern hostel, clean etc. Bags down and time for a run! I …

Woke up later than I wanted, around 9am. Went down for breakfast. Hash browns and egg mayo anyone? Actually nicer than I expected.

Decided I needed to orient myself, since the taxi journey took me round one-way systems. So I walked down to Orchard Road, the shopping mecca here. I imagine it's fantastic if you're buying, because it's just …

So, schon ist wieder Mittwoch morgen und damit der 8. Tag der Reise angebrochen. Der gestrige Nachmittag und Abend wurde noch gut genutzt, nach dem der Regen aufgehoert hatte, lud die Stadt zu ausgiebigen Besichtigungen ein. Wir waren im City Hall Shopping Center, eines von vielen hier in der Stadt, und bei weitem nicht das groesste, aber bereits …

So der letzte Tag in Singapore neigt sich dem Ende, morgen früh geht's mit Tiger Airways weiter nach Kuala Lumpur. Haben heute noch die Aussicht über die Stadt genossen bei einer 8€ Coke im 57 Stockwerk des Marina Bay Sands in der Ku De Ta Lounge. Abschließend kann man echt sagen Singapore ist ne coole City! Auch wenn man nicht …

Early this morning Sabina and I landed in muggy and cloudy Singapore, having gone through possibly the quickest baggage collection and customs procedure in my entire life. This was in sharp contrast to last night when our flight was half an hour delayed and Sabina was sent through security twice for having a bag within a bag! It took us nearly 15 …

Ok, what feels like a tremendously long day..... Left Jhb yesterday around 3pm, landed in Singapore at 7am this am, 6hrs ahead. Connecting flight is only at 5pm this afternoon so decided to head into the city and have a squizz around. The city is surprisingly quite english, easy enough to get around and get on with locals. Left the airport, and …

The idea of Singapore as a sterile utopia is a myth. Sure for a modern city of its size its clean and ultra-efficient, but everyone seems to "jaywalk" despite its apparent penalties and walking around Clarke Quay before the city finally wakes up ...

... fees. Modern skyscrapers rubbed well-designed shoulders with colonial buildings and everything seemed walkable even in humid conditions. Singapore is a shoppers paradise, a culture-vulture's paradise and a food-lovers paradise all in one. In short, an ...

... . Quite a trip to get there on the, not as nice as MRT, LRT trains. KL bit of a culture shock from Singapore people appear less friendly, town dirtier, smellier and altogether more hectic pace of life. Watch Irish rugby victory in Finegans with load ...

... map and ventured back out into the heat.  We had little idea of what there was to see or do in Singapore, and so figured that a general tour of the city would help us to gauge the area and plan the coming days; the Hippo Tours hop-on, ...

... than one immigration counter open for the first time in months. Checking into the Inncrowd hostel, clean, friendly, expensive (Singapore in a nutshell really) I headed out for a walk around encountering enough shops and malls to keep any happy ...

... to the doctors might be contagious, so he canceled on us. Our other friend, Terry, was waiting for us at the city hall subway station. Terry moved to Singapore not more than a couple of months ago, so he is as much a stranger to the city as us. We head ...

... Guide I have and we see things like Parliament House, the Supreme Court, City Hall, Victoria Concert Hall & Theatre, The Esplanade, Raffles City, Singapore Recreation Club, Riverside Point, Cavenagh Bridge, and the Sir Stamford Raffles landing ...

... over the city. I wandered to City Hall, St Andrew's Cathedral, Merlion Park, along the quays and into Chinatown. Singapore really is a clean city. Maybe a bit too sterile and every place is air-conditioned so it's a bit unnatural. Lots of rules ...

... on the island are FREE. So you can travel around the island without wearing your feet out, we discovered this late... Travelled back to Singapore city on the cable-car, past our hop-on spot and back up to Mount Faber (which was boring). Back down to the ...

... the perfect start to my day! I spent this day exploring chinatown, the CBD, raffles area, merlion park, city hall and even walked past the Singapore cricket club, established back in the 1800s! In Chinatown I spotted a shop completely dedicated to ...