I didn’t think this would happen again, but I’m back in Singapore… part of a 2 week trip to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Perth. Much too long away from home, so I thought I’d do another blog… helps me feel connected to you all back home.
Early, and I do mean early, Saturday morning, I drove to London and caught the short flight to Toronto. Great fortune was bestowed upon me as I was upgraded to Executive Class for the 15.5 hour flight to Hong Kong. I managed to get some sleep, but was definitely more comfortable than what I had expected.
I had a couple of hour layover in Hong Kong, but couldn’t really see much as it was very cloudy and misty so the hills and mountains around the hotel were shrouded.
Four hours later (strange, but that feels like a short hop now) and I arrived in Singapore around 10:30 PM Sunday night. To bad my luggage didn’t enjoy the trip with me… some git didn’t put my bag onto the Toronto-Hong Kong flight.
My cohort, Rob, and I booked into the Marina Bay Sands Hotel as it was equally as expensive as any of the others and it looks like a neat place right at Marina Bay.
This is the Atrium inside Tower 1, where my room is… there are two more towers and countless rooms.
At the top of the hotel is the Sands Skypark… part restaurants, part viewing platforms and part infinity pool overlooking the Marina and the downtown. This view is looking out to sea with another major development under construction and hundreds of cargo ships at anchor.
To combat jet lag, I did several long walks through the Marina District and stopped at the famous Raffles hotel for a 1/2 pint of Tiger Beer… Raffles is the originator of the Singapore Sling.
Some night photos…
Across from the hotel is the Marina Bay Sands Shoppes, a large collection of many, many stores the likes of Cartier, Chanel, Dior, Gucci… well you get the ideal! There’s even a Ferrari store, with a Formula 1 race car in the window.
There’s also a Skating Rink, next to the rather upscale ‘Hawker Centre’… but it’s not an ice skating rink… just some kind of plastic floor that people try to skate on. No Liz Manley or Elvis Stojko in sight!
I had some Beef with Singapore Noodles for supper there… S$8 or about CDN$6 and was very good. If you had the same thing in one of the posh restaurants it would be easily 10x the price.
Well that’s all for today… probably not much more til I get to Kuala Lumpur on the Weekend.
Missing you all!