Blogs from Singapore, Asia - page 357

MY STOPOVER IN SINGAPORE ON THE WAY TO MELBOURNE. ... read more

Ok, so today is a little rainy (I swear it's a monsoon!!!) so I thought it was a perfect day to update our journal. After arriving on Saturday morning, Leslie and I slept for a bit and then headed off to Bedok Reservoir for the World Cup wakeboarding competition. It was pretty cool and they had male/female competitors from 16 different countries, including Canada. They were amazing and make it look soooo easy. They even had one girl from Singapore who was 12.....yep, 12! crazy! So, we basked in the sun and watched that and had some delicious wonton soup before heading back to the hostel for an early night. Sunday, we met up with friends of Shaun's grandma's that she had met on a previous trip. Carrie and her sister took us for Dim Sum ... read more

Well, now that we have been living in Bangkok for almost 3 months, we decided to do our first weekend trip out of town. Saturday afternoon we boarded Turkish Airlines, which has a stopover in BKK on its route from Istanbul to Singapore. Suffice it to say that the flight crew must have attended the Aeroflot School of Inflight Charm as we didn’t spot a single smile from the flight crew on the entire flight. We also discovered that there were a couple of pretty stinky people in our vicinity on the aircraft. Overall, we were pretty unimpressed with Turkish and we have ruled them out for any future long haul flights. 2 ½ hours later we landed in Singapore. The orderliness! The cleanliness! It is quite beautiful, very manicured, beautiful plantings everywhere. Everyone spoke English. ... read more

We flew into Singapores Changi airport in the early evening & immediately got a taxi to the Golden Tower complex. Once out on the humid street we picked a travel agent randomly (only factor being no queue) & purchased a bus ticket to Kuala Lumpur. Within half an hour of bus travel we were at the Malaysian border filling in immigration cards which required us to report to plant & health quarantine as we had been in Africa in the previous 6 days. As there didn't seem to be a plant & health quarantine we just sailed through & that was it for Singapore.... read more

hey there, so this is it, we're in paradise. after 13h on the plane and 2h stuck at the airport because someone had a heart attack, we finally made it and it feels great. Singapore is so nice, people are lovely, very king and helpful and there's white sand and palms trees on the beach, so what more can we ask? there's so many differents cultures living here, we've seen different kind of temples, things i had never seen before. food is not that bad, we've managed not to go to mc donald's yet, but i'm hungry all the time. we've been staying in a great hostel, there's wood everywhere and it feels cosy, when i think that we don't need to go to work the morning, i'm not regretting anything. the weather is a bit ... read more