Singapore Stopover





Lemons and sugar cane. Vital ingredients in iced lemon tea

Singapore is best known for its airport, food and shopping. Changi airport is a massive hub. You could holiday there!

 Singapore is a multicultural city. We are staying close to Chinatown where the legacies of the city's colonial past are most apparent. The buildings have preservation orders over them and are beautifully maintained. First impressions include how neat the city is, the lack of motorcycles compared to other Asisan cities, and the absence of 'air spaghetti' (bundles of electrical cables tied and twisted across every roadway.) Taxi's are discouraged from randomly picking up customers from the roadside. Taxi ranks have been set up where you wait in a queue. Singapore presents a sense of prosperity .It's clean, orderly and oh so humid. The humidity is oppressive. Even the locals are complaining. it suffocates everything, and has the same appeal as a woolen blanket on a summer's evening. It seeps into every nook and cranny and saps your energy. I can't believe we walkedi in it for more than five hours today  -  mad tourists!  Shop keepers regularly offer you water. it's not a good look having customers faint from dehydration I suppose. As we walked through the city we passed through Chinatown, the Legacy Gardens and then along Orchard Road, a sophisticated shopping precinct.







Number plate memory is a challenge for
Singaporians!



 

Lionhearted effort to walk for more than five hours in
 Singapore's heat


Historic buildings with well maintianed facades