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    • Day 43

      Bugis Round Two

      February 22, 2017 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      After Little India, Youngmin and I took the MRT over to Bugis Street and Market. Second visit for me, but totally worth it :) I like those little shops, and I didn't really look around too much when I went with David as we spent more time talking that browsing. I also absolutely love all the fresh juices that they have there and was very happy to get another one. Kind of. I decided I'd try a sour plum flavour and oh boy was it disgusting! It tasted like salt water. Nasty. I threw it out even though I hate to waste food/drinks... But I didn't let that experience stop me and I went back and bought a lime juice instead, that was much much nicer. Haha. Each juice was only $1 so it's not like it was a huge deal or loss... Honestly I wish that I could have tried all the different flavours but that would be require a lot more time as there's no way I could humanly drink that much juice in one day. I think there are maybe 20 different juices? I'm not really sure.

      There actually happened to be some sort of religious event going on at the Chinese Temple while we were here this time. The streets outside the market were packed with people! And there were many more stalls than the last time that I was there. It was clearly a very specific clientèle being targeted, local Chinese. The different booths in the outdoor market were manned by people with microphones advertising their products... Products ranging from juicers, to household plants, to clothes, to dishes and other housewares. Definitely not touristy items which was kind of nice. As we were exploring the market I got the feeling that we were being herded and forced into one direction.. So we quickly turned around and forced our way out of the crowd. They all appeared to be going to the temple for worship of some kind. Each person was carrying burning incense, the scent was a little bit too much for me, but it was interested to see. I tried to ask someone there if this was a special event or not but they didn't really speak English so Youngmin and I moved on.
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    • Day 228

      Burgis Street

      April 17, 2017 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      Die Burgis Street ist ein überdachter Straßenmarkt - eine vollgepackte touristische Shoppingmeile, schön bunt und bis 4.00 Uhr geöffnet!
      Früher befand sich hier eine wundervoll schräge Amüsiermeile, die zu Zeiten der Kahlschlagpolitik wegsaniert wurde.Read more

    • Day 68

      Singapore

      November 5, 2016 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Meet 2 nice taiwanese, travelled together. In a small area there are christian church, islam mosque and buddhist temple, super nice guy explained their islam thinkings to us. He admired the freedom in tw while we admire how sensible their gov is. Kind of sad that lots of thing I was in HK is no long in HK, but they are well preserved in SG.Read more

    • Day 12

      welcome to the world

      July 21, 2006 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      So i realise how keen everyone is to see the photos, and can't understand why they haven't been posted up yet but its been a long day and i'll try and tell you about it without falling asleep. (if you would rather skip the excuses and head straight for the photos just scroll down I wont be offended). So here we go, due to the excitement of last nights news and jet lag we ended up with about 5 hours sleep , which isn't too bad if you've been getting regular good nights sleep, which we haven't. First thing this morning we jumped into a cab and headed over to the Thomson Medical Centre to meet the latest member of the Wheeler clan and were there within 15 mins. When we found the room we knocked and were welcomed in by a very proud but extreemly tired looking Chris and were introduced to Saffron. Now at this point I should say its Stewart writing this blog and have been asked to say that "Saffron is the most beautiful and perfect thing in the world", by Ali, however I am far too manly and macho to share such sentiment (she so is though!). We stayed with Chris, Rebecca and Saffron for around an hour and Saffron pretty much slept through the whole experience as only a baby can. We then headed down the road to the nearest MRT station to get an underground train to Little India, half an hour later both swealtering in the humidity we decided it best to jump in a cab which cost little more than the train would have done. We arrived in Little India and found ourselves walking around the many indoor shoping complexes full to the brim with every kind of electrical gadget you could imagine, had I found heaven? We then went into one shop and asked about a webcam which we were informed was $49 dollars, which I considered a little expensive and told the shopkeeper we would look around and come back, this apparently was the perfect thing to say as the price suddenly became $35, it was at this stage I realised that this was truly heaven. We grabbed some food in the hawker centre (food court) downstairs which set us back all of £4 for 2 currys, a naan bread and enough rice for two, and headed off to try and find some premature baby clothes for Saffron who at 5lbs 6oz aparently was too small for all of her new born clothes. We spent some time looking around some traditional singapore shops such as mothercare and marks and spencers before realising that babys were only allowed clothes if they were 4lbs and under or over 7/12 lbs.
      At about 18:15 Saffron Wheeler was introduced to her new home and was subjected to more photos and more filming. We orderd a pizza and Chris and Rebecca decided to feed Saffron, it was shortly after this that Saffron started crying, and unsurprisingly continued to cry off and on for the next 5-6 hours occasionally settling for a while, before to the distress of a stressed and exahusted couple of parrents, started crying again. Chris and Rebecca finally decided to take Saffron back to the hospital to get her checked out about half an hour ago at 01:15. I'm sure she is just stressed out at how much of the world she has to take in but I don't disagree with the decision to take her back to the hospital as this just shows how much they both love their new baby daughter and would do anything to look after her. The moment I get any news I'll post up on here, but for now the moment you've been waiting for ........

      p.s. I appologise for the blurryness of the photos but it was very dark and we decided it best not to have the flash on in case we woke up Saffron.
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    • Day 21

      Bugis & Kampong Glam

      June 14, 2023 in Singapore ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

      Das Ziel war die Haji Lane im Stadtteil Kampong Glam, eine kleine schmale Gasse mit bunten Wänden, ausgefallenen Restaurants und edlen Boutiquen.

    • Day 6

      Noch mehr kleine Eindrücke.

      November 8, 2016 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      Unser kleines Heim für diese Woche und die wenigen Bilder unserer kleinen Stadtführung. Die 4 sind aus unserer kleinen Pause im Botanic Garden. Auch hier geht es mit der Weihnachtsdeko los...

    • Day 85

      Bugis Street

      July 4, 2017 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      Bugis ist uns schon länger ein Begriff, da die dortige MRT Station die nächstgelegene zur Arab Street ist. Obwohl wir daher schon mehrere Male bei Bugis aus- und eingestiegen sind, haben wir nie wirklich einen Gedanken an Bugis selbst verloren. Nach einem Tipp eines Kommilitonen, der die Ecke mittlerweile etwas erkundet hat, bin ich heute Abend auch mal dort hin.
      Als erstes fallen gleich die beiden riesigen Shopping-Malls Bugis+ und Bugis Junction ins Auge. Einkaufszentren gibt es in Singapur ja wirklich wie Sand am Meer. Bei so vielen MRT Stationen steigt man aus und steht direkt in einem...
      Viel spannender war in diesem Fall aber die kleine Bugis Street dazwischen! Sie eignet sich vor allem dazu, Souvenirs aller Art zu kaufen - nicht zu wenig hiervon ist allerdings kitschiger Sche**.
      Es fühlt sich allerdings mal wieder asiatischer an, da es stark an die kleinen Ständchen von Night Markets in den anderen Ländern erinnert. Man wird hier auch wieder vom Verkäufer angequatscht, sobald man ein halbes Auge auf einen seiner Artikel wirft. Es fühlt sich auch nicht alles so exakt, ordentlich, modern und durchgeplant an, wie es sonst in der Stadt der Fall ist - 'nicht so' heißt natürlich noch lange nicht 'nicht'!
      Einige Food Stalls gibt es selbstverständlich auch und vor allem im 2. und 3. Stock - ja, was unten nur wie eine überdachte Gasse wirkt, hat dann plötzlich eine Rolltreppe und weitere Etagen - findet man viele günstigere Modeläden und auch Friseursalons.
      Macht Spaß, hier mal durchzuschlendern und 'zu gucken'. Am Ende bin ich natürlich doch nochmal in einer der richten Shopping Malls gelandet ;-)
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    • Day 4

      In Singapore

      July 21, 2017 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

      Singapore 21-23 July. First day here....finally found our hotel. Now we are waiting for lunch before we go to the markets and China Town.

    • Day 6

      Singapore

      November 14, 2015 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      LAST HOURS IN SINGAPORE
      The real merlion is much smaller than i thought. Took a little walk, bought a sticker for my one and only.
      After that we've aten by the kebab house next to our hostel.

    • Day 12

      Saffron Update

      July 21, 2006 in Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      Just wanted to do a very brief blog to let everyone know that Saffron is absolutely fine. Just heard from Chris at the hospital and he said that she fell asleep in the cab on the way there! Theyr'e gonna stay in overnight again tonight and most of tomorrow day, but I think it's more for the sanity of Chris and Rebecca than Saff because they hadn't really slept since she was born, and she obviously thought they deserved a rest now!Read more

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