Blogs from Singapore, Asia - page 11

Early in the morning (the other couchsurfers were still asleep) I got up to catch an early bus to Singapore. I knew it was gonna take all day to get there and didn't want to arrive too late. After my experience from the other night.. No way! Unfortunately I forgot my earphones at Eric's place so I couldn't listen to music or watch a movie. I had to listen to the busdriver and his friend switching music every 20 seconds. Even though it was Asian music and I didn't know the songs, you hear the silence between songs and the different tone to know they were switching songs. Imagine listen to this for 7 hours. Really, try imagining it and it will drive you crazy already. When we arrived in Singapore it seemed to take forever ... read more

Hiroshima We arrived in Hiroshima an evening earlier than expected and as a result had to find a place to stay. We found the Matsui Garden Hotel on lastminute.com and once there were reminded what a pleasure it can be to stay in a decent hotel - nothing flash but a good business hotel. Good room and WiFi and good location at a reasonable price. Then off to find a close by restaurant with good reviews that we found online, Izakaya. We got close and asked some locals where it was as the signage outside was all in Japanese. They were very helpful and managed to take us back to our hotel before we persuaded them we were going in the wrong direction. Needless to say 15 minutes later we were back at the place we ... read more

4th visit here, still finding lovely new things to do! After Gill came through off her flight we got a taxi from the rank as we couldn’t work out where the Grabs were allowed to pick up and didn’t want to not be able to find the driver. The taxi we did get went a longer route round to get to the hotel, but it cost 22SGD, so not too much more. A Grab would have been 18. 3rd time at the Holiday Inn Express, Clarke Quay. We are so over the walk from the MRT now, next time we’ll go to the Quay Hotel I stayed in a month ago. Gill was raring to go straight out so we walked along Boat Quay to the Merlion, took some pics, then went to the smart Fullerton ... read more

Po zhruba 5hodinovom spanku spakovanie sa a vyslapanie na 5.pochodie kde ma cakali ranajky. Ranajky toasty s dzemom resp maslom + kava, caj. Takze zadna slava. Na recepcii odovzdani kluc a hor sa spoznat ateny za hodinu. Vonku naprsane. Prazdnymi ulickami sa dostavam k roman forum, odtial zacina stupanie k aeropagus hill. Cesta je z oboch stran ohradena, naparava roman forum a nalavo na kopci akropolis. Stretavam len smetiarku a na kopci jedneho fotografa. Vyhlad na mesto fajn ale bohuzial cely aprokolis odtial nevidim ale nevadi stiham aspon vychod slnka i ked ten nic moc. Nemalo zmysel sa z kopca nahlatit, bo viac by som toho nestihol i tak pozriet. Tak vychutnavanie si ranneho kludu. Lepim prvu nalepku na tejto vyprave a popod akropolis zahajujem presun k namestiu syntagma. Idem roznymi ulickami, schodikmi. Vsade okolo pekne ... read more

So excited that it was time for my annual jaunt to SE Asia (Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia). The first leg of my 6 week trip didn’t go to plan, however, or at least not to the timetable. I was bright and early at Heathrow, as usual, and was so happy to meet my buddy Martin for coffee, especially as he will be in Thailand in the same place from Saturday. We were all on the plane and ready to leave when they found a leak in a (the?) fuel pump. My tripit app kept me up to date with the succession of delays, at least 5 delayed departure times until after 4 hours they finally admitted they couldn’t fix it and we all (500 or so) would have to go to hotels for the night. New ... read more