Travel with Nicki and Andre: Singapore

Well, Singapore has been an eye opener! We stayed our first few nights in China Town, the hostel was rather interesting. It was above a karaoke bar (no Hayden, Andre did not manage to make me practise ready for November!) and luckily we booked a room. Otherwise we had to stay in a bunkroom, with a curtain instead of a wall!!!!! Must have been hard to sleep at night. We meet an awesome guy who works for the hostel, Sheraz, from Pakistan, and actually he made our time there so much fun, as you will see later in the video!

We walked around Chinatown and saw the famous temple Sri Mariamman Temple. We were a bit worried as we were staying in Mosque Street that we would get the 0422 morning wake up calls but this has been banned in Singapore…..Now that is what I call progress Winking smile

We did another one of our famous walking tours, although we didn’t get lost this time! The following photo I had to take for my Dad, one of the oldest coins in the world…..

A museum of the early settlers of Singapore, the well is meant to bring good luck, but ultimately this museum was a temple, that changed to an amalgamation of different cultures as a school for underprivileged (early 1800s, very cool)

The following pictures are from the Thian Hock Keng temple which is currently being renovated, the main worship part was not able to be photographed but was amazing!

For our last night in the hostel Sheraz took us out to Arab street, known for the Hubble Bubble tobacco pipes!

And then we met up with Paul, Andre’s friend from NZ, and went for dinner at a Steam Boat where you pick loads of food and its thrown in a massive soup pot in the middle of the table! We got a little carried away trying to spice up the soup so plenty of perspiration on the top lips after that meal.

Paul offered for us to come and stay at his apartment in Singapore. The apartment has air-conditioning, hot shower, TV, massive pool and really central. We stayed a lot longer than intended!!!! And have been slack on the whole blog front, too busy lying by the pool! See the action shot of Nicki doing what she does best.

One thing that did go according to plan is that we managed to get the camera that Andre had won after buying travel insurance for our trip. This machine is water, dust, drop and temperature proof and we have tested this piece of kit to the hilt during our time in Singapore.

To shown how great it is please see below the picture of the ‘Football Bar’ taken while immersed in a pint of expensive beer.

I am impressed with the science of camera manufacture…….see the detail of the photo…..bubbles and colours huh.