The Singapore City Tour began with the guide asking me if Kunter was a German name. This created such internal hilarity that I found myself unable to correct him. The tour gave us a good overview of the city but the commentary was a kind of propaganda spiel in favour of the wonderful government and how it had achieved law-abiding cleanliness on the part of the entire population. The place appears to be one huge shopping mall. It seems impossible to walk more than about 50 metres without passing yet another mall! I think it acts as the shopping centre of South East Asia.
Anyway, yesterday we visited the Raffles Hotel and I had a Singapore Sling and then we went on the The Singapore Flyer in the rain. We spent most of today in the Botanical Gardens (inevitably). Tomorrow we’re off to Perth, hoping that our flight avoids the fate of the QANTAS flight on Tuesday on which “unexplained turbulence” caused forty passengers to be injured and necessitated an emergency landing at a military airbase.
4 comments:
TWO PAIRS OF GLASSES
Great pics. New glasses, Sue?
Botanical Gardens sound great but do they compete with Harrogate - probably not!
Raffles looks like a bar to spend some time in after a busy morning shopping. As I said QANTAS is the safest airline in the world unless you catch Hanz, the ex-Stuka pilot on a bad day.
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Still can't believe this blogging works!
Pete and Cath (Lowestoft)
Hi you two made yourselves at home already with a drink in your hand. Do I have to call you Kunter from now on. Hope all goes well on the flight to Perth and Hanz is not the pilot.
Love Pam and Terry
I'm sure that you really enjoyed the botanic gardens Keith! Is there an affectionate abbreviation of your new name that we can all use when you return?? I'm sure you'll let us know. What was Sue drinking in the hotel?
Hope that the flight went well and that you enjoy Perth and seeing your friends.
Nigel and Chris
We lived in a very different Singapore from 1966 - 1969 and never visited the famous Raffles. "Old Singapore hands" drank elsewhere - one of my great regrets.
Jule and Jeff
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