Singapore
Trip Start
Sep 11, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 05, 2009
We did so much in Sinagapore I'll have to shorten it down a lot. We stayed with Lucy's Dad's friend from school days Bill in his lovely apartment in East Singapore near the East Coast park and beach. We had a great swimming pool to use and a laundrette which we made good use of after months of sending clothes away to be washed and them coming back the in same state just folded up. We met friends of Bills, Graham and Ali for a cup of tea and stayed round theirs for the whole afternoon drinking beer and I even got to watch Norwich beat the Ipswich scum live on a massive TV! Lucy went for a haircut with a lady called Lily which should have taken 2 hours but took 5 and a half. Then Lily adopted us and took us to a nice hawker centre for food then we walked round looking for a Xmas tree for her at 10.30 on a saturday night, and to the Bugis street market where she advised Lucy on what clothes to wear and not to wear. Bill took us out for a great meal at Big Fish restaurant the first night where I had some tasty Mahi-Mahi whatever that is. Bill spoiled us rotten the whole time, we went for drinks at the Brewerkz on Clarke Quay the trendy drinking area where they brew their own beers. He took us to the Raffles Hotel for Singapore Slings, up to the Equinox bar on the 70th floor of the Swissotel. We watched the Liverpool match live at Robertson walk then went for more beers at Clarke Quay. We really had to pester him to let us buy one round of drinks. Bill if you read this thanks again for everything we had such a great time. We also went swimming at the beach, counting 105 ships infront of us in the Straits of Singapore and went to RAF Seletar on the north of the island where my Granddad was stationed and my Mum spent her early years. All the streets are named after parts of London like Picadilly Circus and Mornington Crescent. We went shopping on the mad Orchard Road where single shops don't line the streets, they are all housed in shopping centre after shopping centre. The Xmas lights were incredible, all hanging from the trees. We checked out Chinatown where we went in a Hindu temple, a mosque and a Buddhist temple all in 15 minutes. We went to Fort Canning the old bastion where the city was defended from but missed going down into the 26 underground rooms used in the second world war as it closed 5 mins earlier. The spice gardens and the National Museum near there were cool. Theres gotta be loads I missed out, we managed to relax a bit too in the 6 days we were there. Bill dropped us at the airport and we felt sad to be leaving, both Singapore and Asia as a whole.
