Hotel 81 Classic Singapore

... in public housing, because everyone lives in public housing and is charged according to their income. The tour included a stop at the city center where the merlion is unique to Sinapore. It is a half fish and half lion structure that spews water out its mouth in the harbor. We also got to visit our first mosque. And, last but not least, Singapore has its very own Chinatown, since 70% of the population is Chinese.

We have been home a couple of days, I'm just slack with catching up with this, still jet lagged.

Those long flights are not for me, never seem to be able to sleep., Peter has no problems. We arrived in Singapore at 7.30 am and booked a free tour from the airport, this tour is in a bus which drives you around Singapore and you go for a short walk in the city. The great thing is that you ...

... so happened to be next to a near perfect isolated beach. The boat journey was great fun, his boat was surprisingly speedy! He had rubber rings for us to float around in, which was great because all we wanted to do was be in the water as it was too hot and humid out of it. After about an hour of beach footy I came to the conclusion that the 35 degree heat and saturating humidity was not for me so I spent the rest of the day reading in the shade, damage was ...

... going outside your comfort zone and its a personal experience discovering about yourself (ok enough of the mushy talk). I forced myself to go out to Bugis Street market, this market was pretty huge, in the hour and a half I was there I tried some interesting things such as ducks heart on a kebab skewer!! In the evening I went with Doris again for a walk around Little India, not much else happened, I went to sleep, thats the level of excitement experienced today.

... found in KL included the old colonial area at Merdeka Sq which included a very British cricket pitch and members club, Royal Selangor. Then there’s Chinatown and Little India which does exactly what it says on the tin with Chinese and Indian community areas of the City and best places to eat for the obvious great Chinese and Indian food. The final notable part of KL wasn’t a sight but an act of God as a massive tropical storm hit the city on our last day there. Now ...

... Kansas now Toto!" :)

We've been to Mustafa Centre, the big 24 hour shopping centre and I can say that I have officially had my first experience of being ripped off lol. I remembered to bring my "black husband" (aka. camera that I love more than my own life) with me, but forgot to pack the battery chargers. So we went down and bought one tonight. I was quite pleased with ...

... I will skip to day 10, the day where noble silence was broken, which was a much more fascinating moment than I had anticipated! During the course I didn't feel that I missed talking...sometimes I even felt like I needed to get away from everyone because being around strangers who you can't talk to 24 hrs a day actually does get exhausting! But the most important part about breaking noble silence was that everyone began to SMILE again! All of a sudden everyone had a smile on ...

... found out this was a lie!) we got to the Long bar which is steeped in history. Playing it the cool customer we were going to buy a pint of lager first, so that we did not look so obvious, however, when we walked in to the bar, everyman and his dog was drinking a pink cocktail which we assumed was the Singapore Sling. So we thought sod it and went in straight for the kill. Our Two Singapore slings arrived and we was happily getting our pictures taken with them until the ...

... asking the fella at starbucks if he accepts singapore dollars (Yes he did give me a weird look, agreed that was a stupid question, and even added..''you do know where you are don't you mam?'') I decided it was time to find a place to have a bit of a snooze..easier said then done!!! After an unsuccessful hour upon a thin and boney transit lounge chair I decided to pack up my stuff and go in search of greener pastures..I was relieved to find a ...

... taken aback that I didn’t want to book any of them. I tried to convince him that we really hadn’t come prepared for any organised sightseeing before adding, without really meaning it, that tomorrow we may be more interested. With that, I was able to return to the 18th floor for a last attempt at a sleep in.

We awoke refreshed a little later and ventured outside into Victoria Street in the heart of the city. As a modern city with obvious Western ...