Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 | Views [557]
Sir Thomas Raffles, of hotel fame from yesterday's posting, was the founder of the city of Singapore, and is given tribute with monuments and placenames throughout the whole of this small country. One of his achievements, apparently, was the establishment ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 | Views [559] | Comments [2]
By far, the best thing about yesterday was having dinner and drinking a famous Singapore Sling in Raffles Hotel. We took two bus tours around Singapore yesterday, from north to south and then from east to west. It's a lovely city. We were hungry after ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Tuesday, 10 Jul 2007 | Views [553]
We bought so much yesterday. We woke up and decided to take it easy. The hotel has a swimming pool and tennis courts, but we needed to buy runners for tennis. The concierege directed us across the road to a shopping mall. We thought finding runners ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Monday, 9 Jul 2007 | Views [510]
Today we travelled for the entire day to get from Tokyo to current home in the 5-star Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore. Let me tell ya, these folks know how to treat a honeymoon couple - benefits left right and centre - none better than the upgrade to ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
