A little taste of home

I was feeling quite home sick today knowing that all the family, except my sister, were together meeting my new nephew. With that in mind and still with planning to do we headed to Starbucks to plan how we we're getting to Singapore and our accommodation there. Singapore, we have heard, is very expensive so we wanted to get our accommodation booked as soon as possible to avoid the costs going up too much or cheaper places not being available. After some research we concluded that we will be heading back into a dorm room, our first since Kyoto, Japan and private rooms are just too expensive. Even for a dorm room for 3 nights it is a lot more expensive than we have been paying but we think we have found a nice hostel and are in an 8 bed dorm together. We also had a look into what to do this afternoon and everything is far away and we felt we weren't that bothered about doing any of the things, not enough to travel far for it. To cheer ourselves up we decided to head to the 8th floor of the mall which did have some great views and visit the cinema there. We decided upon The Mummy in the end which was very jumpy but so good! The sound effects and volume in the cinema make it so much more scary. We thoroughly enjoyed it and it was the treat we needed and felt like we were back in the UK. After the cinema we headed to an authentic Italian restaurant for some pizza. It was quite a trek and when we got there we were seated and then told as we were looking through the menu that their oven is broken so they have no pizza. We decided to leave and managed to find another one not too far away from where we are staying. It wasn't amazing but it was still a nice dinner before we headed back to the guest house. Not a very exciting day but something that needed to be done.Read more