Thursday, August 02, 2007

Posh packers not backpackers

We are at the moment sitting in the Airport waiting for our flight, having allowed ourselves 5 hours to get out of Singapore and over the 2 borders and back on buses. 1 taxi, 4 buses later it all went well, and wasnt a problem. I cant help being defensive when people are trying to help you, thinking that they want to rip us off but people are actually just being nice to us.

We bought another bag yesterday, its massive and is posh in that it has wheels and like a normal bag but... you can instantly transform it into a backpack if needs be. At the moment therefore its holding inside it our sexy blue tacky hawaiian bag which admittedly we dont need but we have both become attached to it.

Yesterday was spent doing last minute shopping (again) which we bought 4 abercrombie tshirts for £4 each. Another bag for me. (bag obsessed we are). We also in the morning went on a river cruise on a bumboat. Got to see a little bit more of Singapore. In the evening we reconfirmed the fact that food may be cheap here but you have to buy double as the portion sizes are tiny. Simon ordered lasagne and it was laughingly tiny.

I also managed to lock us out of the room after saying i had the key i then put it in the wrong bag(bag obsessed that we are) and shut the door behind us before i realised.

Im said i know but i cant help being impressed with the transport system, for the past 2 days we have got the tube around singapore and its great, each journey costs about 30p each. You get a swipe card that you a deposit for, but at the other end of the journey you then put it back in the machine and get it back. The stations are all really posh and are massive. The trains are really clean and are open so you can see from one end of the train to the other.

Chewing gum seems to be banned from Singapore, i was hopin customs wold have taken Simons nicorette chewing gum off him, no such luck.


PS. If anybody wants to txt us, please use my original english number as my aussie number doesnt work anymore.

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