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Singapore - where the pavements sparkle ...
After moaning and complaining about the chaos, filth and general nonsense of China and the rest of SE Asia, you'd think that I'd love Singapore - where the pavements are so clean you could perform open-heart surgery on the streets, where everyone speaks English, where trains, planes and automobiles run on time, and everything goes by the book. And …
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Slingin' It In Singapore
Singapore, the City-State, at only 274 square miles it is easily the smallest country I have ever been to, although arguably has possibly the most to offer. Its name is derived from the Sanskrit singapura, meaning lion city, after Sang Nila Utama, founder of the ancient settlement of Singapore saw what he thought was a lion here. Despite a …
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A big welcome back to the Green man!
Howdie!
We begin this story with a tale of the rubbish driver. We got onto our bus to go to KL which was in the underground bus park of the bus station. The driver decided to reverse to get out of the station and whilst doing this reversed right into a massive column! Its not like he didn't know it was there! So instead of getting out to … -
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I'll see ye Sing!
Last day in Singapore, we thought we'd cover the rest of the touristy stuff, but not before we worked out how to get to off this heavenly island! So we walked to where we thought we could get a coach to Melaka. As usual, we ended up nowhere where we wanted to be. Finally found it, booked our ticket to leave on the bus at 8.30 the next morning.
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Bindi Blessings
... an old southern mansion, and a tropical bungalow on the beaches of Miami. Maureen really wanted to go to the famous long bar and have one of their Singapore Slings....how could you go all the way to Singapore and not have one? I had read that they were ...
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Singapore
... week journey down from the icy depths of Beijing we wanted to finish off in style. What better way than sipping a Singapore Sling in the Long Bar of the Raffles Hotel as you toss peanut shells onto the floor with colonial arrogance! It was one of ...
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Safari, So Good
... and the lure of pink cocktails with mini-umbrellas proved too much as we walked up the stairway to the Long Bar, where they invented and have since served Singapore Slings for the past 90 years. We made our crunchy way through the colonial bar to a ...
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Singapore
... Singapore we decided to splash out and live like we were rich and famous, if only for half an hour, and try a Singapore Sling at Raffles Hotel. The Long Bar at Raffles (PICS) is the birthplace of the renowned cocktail and is still the place to sample the ...
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The Perfect Hosts
... home to many high end shops but just couldn’t bring ourselves to pay a magnificent price for a Singapore Sling there so we just had a peak at the Long Bar instead which appeared decidedly ordinary in comparison. We walked quite some way ...
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Singapore - Multicultural, Metropolitan and Clean
... all the way. Everything you'd ever want from a city is never far away. Lowlights: 1. Going for a Singapore Sling where they were invented in the Long Bar at Raffles and paying $60 for 2 drinks and 2 Shirley Temples. UGH - I hate feeling ripped ...
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Sparkling Singapore
... a nap. That evening we went to eat at the famous Maxwell Road Hawker Centre. This place is generally esteemed as one of Singapore's best hawker centres, basically this is in an open-sided 30 stalled food barn. This is where the local people come to eat, ...
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First Stop, Singapore - days 2 to 6
... Raffles Hotel on her birthday. So, in the afternoon, we made our way there; first stop, the famous Long Bar, where the infamous Singapore Sling originated. We were served the overpriced, pre-made cocktails (at 15 pounds each!) and ...
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Second day in Singapore
... we had all that sorted we had a look around Fort Canning Park then back to Raffle's Long Bar (which was now open) and a respectable time for some Singapore Slings. For dinner that night we went to Smith Street and had satay mutton and pork skewers ...
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Chapter 24: Living in a material world...
... it's the epitome of colonial luxury in the city. Pretty much every tourist stops by to have a Singapore Sling; I relaxed in the hotel's atmospheric Long Bar, pretended I was a colonial spice trader, and tossed one back. Wednesday I finally made ...
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