Singapore Sling

Sweet Sorrow

On day 22 of the Intrepid trip - Thursday the 19th of March we arrived in Singapore, our final destination together :c( Singapore is a huge garden of a city. No chewing gum was allowed to be brought into the country. Very clean and stylish place.

Goodbyes were said to our ace Malaysian tour guide Mira and we arranged to meet as a group and go to the Singapore night safari zoo! But beer o'clock was first!

Most of the day was actually spent in a shopping mall sorting out and burning off all the photos from Dan's, Lisa's and my cameras (!) Had to resort to a burger king for food, but still i've not succumb to the evil of McDonald's, even after sitting in them more than once over the past few weeks - 4 years and counting on that!

The night safari was cool, loved the largest rodents - looked like huge hamsters! craaaaaazy.

http://people.uleth.ca/~holzmann/peru/2550_Charlie_the_capybara.jpg

We hit Chinatown heritage restaurant for food and drinks at about 10. Really nice part of Singapore this.

Friday we visited Sentosa island next to the main island. Was only S $3 to get there on the monorail. Was more like a theme park than anything and didn't seem that great until we found a 'Cafe Del Mar' Loved it. A Singapore sling cocktail was quickly ordered and a bed on the beach seccured.


Clark Quai

That night we all met up again and headed to Clark Quai, a waterfront area for some expencive bars!. The clinic was worth every penny! A bar with a hospital theme - Hospital beds, wheel chairs, cocktails in drips along with operating tables and lamps - Brilliant! An ace venue for one last group drinking sessions! Hugs all round and our two favourite canadian girls dissapeared into the crowd :c(

Made me realise the trip had actually ended.

Met with a few of Dan's mates from Sweden for another pint in a bar with a live band playing 'Bistro Live' type of music - Singapore style, before I ran for the tube.




The next morning I got chatting with a cool Beef farmer type dude from Sommerset in my hostal - Mike. We went and met the rest of the remaining members of my group and hit Orchard road for some highsteet browsing and Singapores largest book shop. We headed towards the Hard Rock Cafe at the end of the road. Thats Three I've done now in three different countries on this trip. Rawk! Orchard road was followed by the world famous Raffle's Hotel, photos and drinks! me and Mike had one last drink with Dan and Lisa in a german bar before they too dissapered into the crowd to find a taxi.

Me and Mike sort shelter for a few hours in an internet cafe as a huge tropical style storm made itself at home above the city! With three words via email from one of MIkes mates we were re-inspired and headed to the New Asia Bar - 70 floors up in the sky. This was maybe the most amazing sunset i have seen in the 24 years of my life...The sun went down as we supped beer (Well Mike had a half yard of Tiger beer so he glugged a bit too) and the all the nocternal lights of the sprawling city slowly came to life.... Not bad for my last night in Singapore i'd say!

http://www.swissotel.com/EN/Destinations/Singapore/Swissotel+The+Stamford/HOTEL+HOME/Gallery/Dining/New+Asia+Bar.htm

Sunday morning me, cool Max and Mike eventually found an Irish bar on Penang road and had the first roast dinner we'd had in over a month!!! Beef AND chicken for me!! (still not quite as good as mums tho:cP ) We had a roast, pool, football on tv.... If it was raining outside i would have sworn i was home.

I proceeded to the airport after and got my plane to the next leg of my adventure: Oz. Phoned home and had a good catchup chat with mum before getting on my 8 hour flight. Some how for that short 15 minutes 10900 Km didn't seem as far away.