FRIDAY 26TH MAY - SINGAPORE

I was unsure as to whether I would continue the blog in Singapore but it's raining quite steadily outside, which has put pay to my exploration plans, so the blog continues.

Yesterday was an uneventful travelling day with Japan Air Lines who delivered us to Singapore yesterday afternoon. We are now staying at the very nice and well located Fairmont Hotel in a comfortably large room – large by comparison with many of the Japanese rooms we stayed in. Unfortunately Trish seems to have developed a very debilitating case of the flu which is slowing her down.

This morning we went on our prearranged City Tour which was a good orientation exercise for our own exploration. Unfortunately the rain, which didn't start until just as we finished the tour, is curtailing that exploration.

This city is an architect's dream – some very exotic buildings. Hopefully we will get to explore the Marina Bay Sands when the rain stops. Our guide this morning told us that, if we go to the 56^th floor of tower 3 and order a drink at the C'est La Vie restaurant, we get to experience the roof top garden and horizon pool without otherwise paying.

Other venues visited this morning were the National Orchid Garden at the Singapore Botanical Gardens and an area called Little India.

I'm not sure why we visited Little India. I suspect Chinatown would have been more interesting. Perhaps there is nowhere to park the bus in Chinatown. Needless to say, we were given the history of how each area developed. It all started with Chinatown.

 

We also visited a Chinese Temple (ABT) Presumably such things are of interest to people who haven't spent three weeks in Japan.

Tomorrow we have tours of Gardens By the Bay and a Night Safari Tour. Hopefully Trish will be well enough to enjoy them.