Tuesday, July 31, 2007

We love Singapore

Singapore is great. After all being natured out in Australia, Singapore is all about the shops, and oh my gosh there is lots and lots of shops, and the best thing is that they all contain bargains. Today i had my hair washed and dried, because ive decided as i just cant continuously buy clothes because we cant carry them and we reckon they will be even cheaper in Thailand it was time to pamper myself instead. Im trying to convince Simon to come with me for a foot massage by visually impaired women (recommended by Lonely Planet????).
The first couple of nights was spent at the Central Singapore Hotel, we didnt particularly like this place as it was a bit dark and dingy, but great for the shops, we are now at the Hotel Bencoolen. (we plan to leave here on Thursday) Whilst a little further out it is a bit cheaper and is a much nicer room except it smelt of stinky feet initially until we got the cleaner to spray it.
Its been Simon's turn to be ill so he spent the first day in bed whilst i went shopping and then yesterday he was fine and then in the middle of the night he woke up with earache, its got better though as the day has progressed and hasnt stopped us doing a bit of a walking tour around the place, past Raffles Hotel where we thought it was only right to spend half our days budget on a Singapore Sling Cocktail with Souvenir Glass. We were good though and only bought 1 to share.
The weather is.... very very humid and unfortunatly very cloudy, not stopped Simons head going red though.
The reason we like Singapore so much apart from the shops is that majority of people seem to speak Singlish (a pigeon form of English), it has a New York cosmopolitan attidude, apartently a very safe city, of course its bargain city, its really easy to get around and can go on the tube for 30p, and its a little nearer to England then Australia. We do kind of agree that its great city but its not beautiful like Sydney for the harbour bridge etc, its trying to be though.

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