Righty ho then, all packed and ready to checkout. It has been a fantastic time this last week in Singapore. You can sit and people watch for hours, when it rains it truly does rain, but you don’t really care.
In traditional style here’s the role call:
– 1 Zip Wire
– 1 Luge
– 2 Cable Cars
– Daily MRT rides
– About 40 miles of walking (ouch)
– 2 Singapore Flyers (the big wheel)
– 2 Suits
– 5 Singapore Slings
– The Raffles Long Bar
– 1 Harley Davidson Shop
– 1 Chinese Banquet
– 1 Japanese Banquet
– 3 bottles of champoo
– 27 hours in planes
– 1 fantastic week
Singapore is a fantastic place to visit for a few days, very hot, very humid and some wonderful sites. This is very much a shoppers paradise, however looking in some of the shops you need to be seriously minted to afford some of the items.
A wonderful city break, now home to the cold.
Yes today will be a long long day, hence the renaming. Up at 9am, breakfast, showered, packed and checked out by 1pm. Walking tour until 9pm, airport for 9.30pm, plane for 11.45pm (local time), the 14 uncomfortable hours landing at 5.35am on Sunday.
Well it’s not Friday it’s been Saturday for at least 10 minutes now and they haven’t changed the carpet, what are tourists supposed to do now? How will they know the day has changed?
What a better way to stop prostitution than have cameras in the Red Light area and not even tell you where they are, ha.
A very nice day today, MRT ride to Dhoby Ghaut then a slow wander up through Fort Canning Park, a sacred Malay Hill that Mr Raffles decided would make a “spiffing house”, so he promptly had the jungle cleared, built a nice bungalow and then all his mates moved in and the hill was for a time named Government Hill. It has the original government building ( very English colonial) and lots of walks through a pretty park. This is also where in the 2nd World War the British troops set up base. There is an underground battle box on the site that you can tour, complete with wax dummies to help you understand. We did not go in but walked on through to Clarke Key, once full if warehouses to load and unload goods that came by sea and up the river. Now it is a haven of pretty converted buildings and rowdy bars complete with lots of tourists and expensive drinks (but they do offer lots of happy hours!)
Welcome to one of the most famous or infamous places in Singapore, Harry’s bar in Clarke Quay. This is apparently the location where the former Rogue Trader Nick Leeson drank whilst collapsing the Bearings Bank.
After our suit purchase (and Mrs Fogg posing for the start of her Catalogue modelling career) we went for DIY lunch again at Sho Teppan in the ION centre on Orchard Road.
And here we have Mr Fogg in a cashmere suit in dark blue/black sporting a rather sexy single breasted jacket and fitted trousers. Having been made to measure the sleeve length is right for a change. The tailor said he made nice pleated trousers to accommodate Mr Fogg’s happy bump ( that’s a sign of good living apparently, although we can only assume what a happy bump is)
And the finished article for Mrs Fogg, purchased especially for her upcoming trip to Calcutta.