Visiting Favorite Places in Singapore
It was an uneventful flight into Singapore. Bryan seemed a bit irritated that his PlayStation wouldn’t work on the television that was in the seat in front of him on the plane. He had to watch the movies with me instead. We did manage to negotiate our way through the airport, which, by-the-way, was clean and roomy, and find the van that would take us to one of the best Singapore hotels around. On our ride to the hotel, we met a lovely couple. It was their first time in Singapore and they were so very excited. We told them they had every right to be excited, Singapore is a beautiful place.
After we let some jet-lag go, we got up early and wandered through Chinatown. It’s one of our favorite places to visit when we are in Singapore. It was Sunday morning, so all the shops were closed and the street were deserted, so we headed on up to the Boat Quay and on to Cavenagh Bridge. From that vantage point we could see the Merlion fountain and the Theaters on the Bay building look like bug eyes from here. We were hungry and decided to eat breakfast across the street at the Raffles.
With our stomachs full, we began our trip to Orchard Road. We were in the market for a new video camera, we ended up buying the very first one we saw, it only took us 3 hours of shopping though! After lunch, we made a quick jaunt to Fort Canning Park, but weren’t too impressed so headed back to the Raffles Long Bar to down a few Singapore Slings. For dinner, we went to Smith street and had the most perfect satay mutton, pork skewers and Bakkwa, it’s a sweet sliced of pork. Then, sleepiness took over, so we headed back to our hotel for some much needed rest, oh and a little bit of PlayStation.
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