Three months and 16 days to go before we are home, for any of you that are interested in us when we return! With a massive adventure and the biggest cultural differences we will come across on our travels we are really excited about Asia. Our first stop for a few short days will be Singapore. A tiny little country at the tip of the Malaysian peninsula. Its probably best we eased ourselves into South East Asia by coming here first. Its similar to any western city and has all the trappings to go with it. When we arrived in Changi [View Full Entry]

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By overnight train we arrived from Kota Baru in Singapore. Here we met our German friend Julia again. We've been running into Julia everywhere since we met her first in Tama Negara. At this time Julia was traveling with a father and son from Switzerland annd son from Switzerland annd son from Switzerland and we decided to join for a bit. During our Journey to Singapore it was Ilse who attended us to the fact that it was Singapore's 44th birthday on our date of arrival. After the train, we said goodbye to the Swiss and Julia joined us to our [View Full Entry]

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Hi all spent over an hour trying to put on some photos but no joy. So will see you soon to bore you with the physical evidence. Wish you were here LOL xxx [View Full Entry]

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Sorry it's been a little long since my last entry. I have been running around like crazy for the last couple of weeks doing all kinds of fun stuff. Some of that stuff was going to East Coast Park (a beach in Singapore), taking a trip to the Singapore Zoo, and last weekend I went to Batam, Indonesia to go cable skiing. EAST COAST PARK: The park is located on the East side of the island. It is approximately 4 km long (2.5 mi.) and it is decoarated with lovely palm trees, quiet ponds, and biking/rollerblading paths. It takes about 1 [View Full Entry]

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Meine Lieben Dass eine Businessstadt einfach unfreundliche Bewohner hat, ist seit Singapore keine berechtigte Aussage mehr. Wahnsinn, was ich da an Gastfreundschaft, Hilfsbereitschaft und Feundlichkeit erfahren habe. Ich bin echt beeindruckt, und versuche, mir davon ein Stueck abzuschneiden. Mit Singapore Air hatte ich ja einen super deal. Hab einen Stopover fuer eine Nacht gebucht, mit Hotel und Flughafentransfer. War ziemlich guenstig, aber hat sich voll gelohnt. Da ich waehrend dem Flug ziemlich viel geschlafen habe, kam ich gut erholt in meinem Hotel an und verspuerte denn stark [View Full Entry]

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ersten Flug überstanden (11,5h)! Lief alles prima, bis auf dass meine Sitznachbarin bei der Landung kotzen musste... das war ein bisschen eklig. Aber sie ist schwanger und da darf man das, ohne dass jemand böse sein kann ;) Jetzt warte ich auf den Anschlussflug und bin froh, dass der nette Thailänder neben mir, mir bei der Internetverbindung geholfen hat ;) [View Full Entry]

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Hi, my name is Patsy the Purple Cow. You can call me Patsy for short. I am purple. I am a cow. I am on a trip to Southeast Asia for eight months. I am going to write a blog about what I do on the trip. My friend Ella is carrying me around. It was a very long plane ride. We were on one plane for fifteen hours. The whole time I was flying toward the sun and so it was light the whole time we were on the plane. I flew into a place called Singapore which is definitely [View Full Entry]

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Hey all! So yesterday I went to Puala Ubin, an island of Singapore off the east coast of the country. My school is on the West Coast of Singapore, so it took about an hour to get across to the other end of the country (which is a mere 18 miles long). Then about half an hour on a small "bumboat" to get to the Island. The Island represents what Singapore once was, as it was not colonized by Britain like the main Island of Singapore. Singapore is noticeably very wealthy with clean streets, fancy buildings, expensive shopping centres, and very [View Full Entry]

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In Singapore, Day 3 Singapore is a good place to start a trip to Asia. It’s Asian without any chaos. There are many things I like and appreciate about Singapore: • The streets are clean. o It is illegal to litter. • English is the common language. o Chinese, Malay and a variety of Indian languages are the other main languages. o A 6 year old at a playground asked Ella what her mother tongue was. Ella had no clue what a mother tongue was, so I said English, not bothering to explain that it was Ella’s only tongue. The 6 [View Full Entry]

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12th July 2009 With only one day to explore Singapore we headed to the harbour where we saw the famous symbol of the country, the Merlion. After walking around the centre of Singapore for a while we headed to Little India to check out a couple of Hindu temples. The one we saw was very colourful, with statues of the gods lining the outside of the temple. We headed to a nearby park for a sit down and we were treated to a chinese dragon display by a troupe of kids. We then headed to the night market for our first [View Full Entry]

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