There are 3 main types of backpacker. There’s the up first thing, pack in lots of sightseeing and activities and relatively early to bed. Then there’s the opposite: sleep most of the day, get up in the afternoon and then go boozing each night. Finally there is the strangest of the lot, who get up late, go to bed early and spend the handful of hours in between lounging around the hostel ‘saving money’. Perhaps travelling to them means just being away from home rather than actually seeing anything or doing anything whilst there. Anyway, there are a lot of the third type in our current hostel, one of whom even had a mid-afternoon nap; we are working hard to confirm membership of the first type and were up at dawn and got to the Singapore
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