Madras Hotel Eminence Singapore

... loud speakers. But the streets are clean and hawkers are virtually non-existent.

Same thing in the Arab Quarter. There’s the mosque, the food, the people, and the colorful and beautiful fabrics everywhere. But no seedy element.

Of course this is all because Singapore has a very controlled government. Fines for misbehavior are authoritative. Spitting, chewing gum and jaywalking will all set you back something around $1000. Same ...

Le etnie cinese e indiane sono ben rappresentate in questa cittā ed č un piacere vedere le loro usanze concentrate in un unico posto. Ti sembra come per magia di esserti trasferita nei loro paesi di origine. Le vie sono brulicanti e non perfette ed asettiche come il resto della cittā ma assolutamente imperfette, confusionarie Come in tutte le grandi cittā č difficile vedere qualcuno che si ferma a chiaccherare per la strada; si ...

Crossing another border and gaining another stamp in my passport and I have now arrived in Singapore. Again I was amazed at how different countries can be even when they only have a land border. Singapore is very clean, modern and extremely expensive so I only stayed here for 3 days.

For the first night we headed down to Clark Quay which used to be a run-down area of warehouses which have now been renovated into a huge ...

My husband decided that he is taking time off work to do some traveling while we are in Asia. He said this is the most appropriate time as I have not started work and the kids are young enough to miss some schooling. He suggested 6 months.

My eyeballs went 360. My head was spinning. Can I bring my hair dryer as part of traveling light? Would my 5 year old son kick the ...

... bit expensive up there so we headed back to Little India for a few Tiger beers at a much lower price! We got the munchies so went on the hunt for food, found a great little Indian eatery where we had some kind of onion baji things and patra bread and dip...all for the equivalent of about 2 quid, lovely! The owner was so friendly and kept bringing out little tasters for us to try and even introduced us to his Mum - who seemed a bit scared of me as I had ...

... Hooters! The only problem being that the Asian waitresses don't have much in way of actual "hooters"!!! They still looked pretty good though!

Our cruise was only short, taking us down into Marina Bay, past the "Merlion"- the half lion, half mermaid statue – and also the Esplanade entertainment venue which has seating for 27,000 people overlooking a floating stage! Apparently it is jam packed full when ...

... of the demon spawn was like being given a mansion surround by brothels, crack factories and the occasional mental institution. I looked over at the row and saw the two middle seats beginning to move back and forth from vigorous kicking from behind. A tear was almost forming.

As we taxied out on to the runway, our isle’s main helper man, whose name was (no ****) Wolf Blank, told me that I wasn’t allowed to have my ear phones in at full bull to drown out the sound ...

... but the well was recently heightened. Everywhere on the whole campus is now air conditioned

... the hill in the hope of finding a better viewpoint further up. I then bumped into the group of schoolgirls that I had the screaming contest with. They were taking it in turns to timidly throw rocks into the quarry lake whilst making a wish - being kept well away from the 50 foot sheer drop by their adult guide - who invited me to sit with her on the cliff edge. We had a strange conversation (strange in the fact that stones were flying over our heads as we spoke) and it turned ...

... Needless to say we were having none of it. Thanks to the driver's 'creative' route, we had also missed the airport bus by 3 minutes and so had to get on another bus to Kempe Gowda. Which took ages cos it was rush hour. We chatted to a guy who collected foreign coins on the bus and gave him some British coppers for his collection. Finally we got to Majestic, immediately hopped on the airport bus then waited around for an age (as ever) for it to ...