Stopover in Singapore

We flew into Singapore and headed off to the city to meet Martin who kindly agreed to put us up for a couple of nights. The heat was overwhelming when we arrived. It hits you like a brick. So by the time we arrived at his place we both looked like we had jumped in the bath. I was immediately impressed by how clean the place is. No litter anywhere, which is quite a change from S. America. We met Martin in Boat Quay for a few beers and sat by the river watching the boats zoom past.
Martin left the next day for a little trip to Myanmar (Burma) and the crazy man let us stay in his appartment unsupervised, which was very kind of him. His apartment is great and we made the most of having a place with air con, a washing machine and the use of a TV with a DVD player.

We only had one day there as we were on a stopover to Bangkok, so we didn't get to see much. We did a little walking tour around the city and took in various sights including Martin's cricket club at The Padang, where guys were playing cricket in 40 degree heat with the full kit on.

We then found our way to the famous Raffles Hotel, but we didn't indulge in a singapore sling as we are too stingy.

After that we found the shopping malls and I spent an hour drooling over the clothes before Ben was accosted by a man in who tried to get him to by some prime UK real estate, which was a bit odd, plus they were hosting a London fashion show there, so it was like being back home for the day.

The next day we flew into Bangkok so it was a very short but sweet visit.