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Published: October 7th 2006
Hi Everyone!
We made it safely to Singapore- it's amazing! The flight was good. I watched The Break Up and an episode of Friends and Without a Trace. Slept for about 4 hours too. We arrived last night and went to our hotel. It's lovely and we got a free upgrade to a business class room. Only problem was that once we'd been there 10 mins a big fat cockroach came running out from under my bed!! So that was it, we got our backpacks and went back to the lobby to get another room!! (which sadly wasn't an upgrade!- but no cockroach at least!)
There was a festival called the mooncake festival in Chinatown so we decided to go there for the evening. It was incredible- colourful lanterns and dragons everywhere with music up and down the streets. We got given glow sticks and joined in- running totally on adrenaline!
Afterwards we had a look around the little market stalls and I bought a pink fan- hand held and very pretty. It's so hot here- humid more than anything (about 80%), temp is about 30 upwards. We got coconuts to drink the milk out of- very refreshing.
We had chinese for dinner. I had lemon chicken with seafood fried rice (which included squid- and I ate it- Laura you would have been so proud!) We also had a bottle of beer each- they were huge.
Today we had our city tour. We went to a famous statue on the front called the 'Merlion' it had the head of a lion and the body of a fish. We also went to a Chinese temple which was stunning. The next stop was a gem factory, then the orchid gardens which were beautiful and then Little India. Little India was covered in decoration because it is the month of Ramadan at the moment. We went into a little market alley which was cute but very busy and smelly. Smelly in the sense of incensce sticks and curry!!
We decided to be adventurous and use the trains, it was just like the underground but a lot cleaner! It was pretty easy and we came back to Orchard road. It's full of big shops- even a Marks and Spencers mum!! We have just had dinner in a really cool American style diner and are now in an internet cafe just
down the road.
We are having such a good time. The people are so friendly and everyone speaks English. Tomorrow we are going to Singapore Zoo and Monday night we are doing the sunset tour of Sentosa- the local island. We will put photos on here soon- we've got about 70 already! One last thing I must add is our favourite quote so far! The taxi drivers are really friendly and love to tell you all about Singapore. One was telling us how safe it is here and said 'you can walk across the island on your own for three days and be safe- you pretty- no-one cares!!' We thought that was hilarious!
Love to you all- missing you already. We're having such an amazing experience. Will update again soon x x x
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Mooncake Festival
Jon R
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Sweeet!
Heya, glad to hear you're having a ball already! See you soon now you are in my neck of the woods :)