Singapore

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Wow. great city. I wasn't too convinced at first. Maybe it was just the jet lag but we took a river cruise and got our bearings and it kind of started to make sense. fantastic at night ? very expensive though!

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Photos

the Long Bar @ Raffles Hotel
Lovely old colonial building. The Long Bar isnt actually that long but Singapore Slings and a bag of monkey nuts just had to be done! Tradition is to throw the nut shells on the floor. Don't know why but when in Rome.... the floor was absolutely covered in them!

Raffles Hotel
Courtyard restaurant. Looked very nice. Didnt eat there. Wish we had done though.

Kids statues
Alongside the river

The weirdest hotel
With its own resort on the roof! Palm trees, beach, pool.......Mad!

More delicious food!
Wonderful New York Cheesecake and a gluten free moose for Mrs B. Great good the entire trip and not a chocolate Hobnob in sight ?

fountain square
Coloured fountains. People do actually walk through them just for fun but also to cool down I reckon. The heat and humidity during the day was crazy

Singapore skyline
Looked great at night

Sri Mariamann Temple
In Chinatown! we had to take our shoes off the enter. That was so cruel - the pavements were so ridiculously hot!

Window cleaner
cleaning the windows on one of the domes at the Gardens on The Bay

Pagoda Street Chinatown
Love these old colonial buildings

wacky trees
At the Gardens on the Bay. They are trading plants and flowers up them. The look amazing at night all light up.

trees and that bonkers hotel
Singapore skyline in the background. We got up one of the trees and climbed the suspended sky walkway between them.

driftwood dragon
Dragon and eagle made from driftwood

travellers statue
Donated to the Gardens on the Bay by Changi Airport

tulip festival
Part of the exhibition while we were there but it was full of noisy schoolkids so we did an about turn !

Chinatown
Great old buildings

Temple Street . Chinatown
Sweltering hot streets. Lost count of the number of tailors offering to make me a shirt or suit! Had a nice Thai lunch in Temple Street. Relatively cheap compared to the riverside places we'd eaten in.