Saturday morning and I am missing the West Australian, a cuppa and some toast! So to make do we found a Dome Cafe and had scrambled eggs, bacon and real toast!!!! This was more of a brunch because we slept in and didn't get moving until about 10am. Our hotel room is very quiet and the bed is fantastic so we are enjoying a good sleep each night. Walking about 6 kilometres a day is also contributing.
After our brunch we walked down to the Esplanade and then across the bridge to get some photos of the "Merlion", the mythical half lion - half mermaid figure that is the main symbol of Singapore
. There were lots of people about - many school children and lots of families - and we headed over for a look at the "Pandang" the large park which houses the Singapore Cricket Club. There was a big Twenty20 cricket carnival be played on the tiny ground there and we watched a while before having a quick look at the SCC itself - very olde world and very English - and then finding Funan Digitalife City, which is a huge mall with 5 levels of electronics! Geek heaven!
We spent about 90 minutes in the centre - there was every gadget you could think of plus some more I hadn't even dreamt of - some of the shops were huge and you could take a shopping trolley to fill with electronic goodies!
We saw a huge refrigerator that had diamantes set in the handles for God's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By now we were getting a bit sick of the throngs of people and so we walked in the stiffling heat back to the MRT at City Hall and from there in the air-conditioned comfort of the City Link Mall back to our hotel.
We had a chat to Katie on Skype and watched the end of the Dees/Blues game while lamenting the thrashing the Crows were giving our Eagles!!!! In combination with the pathetic efforts of the Aussies in the cricket has made for another miserable sporting Saturday.
More exploring!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Singapore, Singapore
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