Arrived in Singapore bright and early Friday morning after catching a 2am flight out of Perth. Thought I would catch the train to my hotel, only to realize half way there that I should have probably just taken a cab. Negotiating the subway transfers with full travel luggage during rush hour in busy Singapore was probably a bit much. Fortunately the hotel, across from nice little district of colonial-style architecture shops, agreed to take my baggage straight away even though I wasn’t supposed to be checking in to my room until 3pm. <\/p>\n
I used to travel to Singapore about 3 times a year a decade ago for business, but I have not been back in years. Traipsing through my old haunts in my very jet-lagged state, I snooped around the Bugis and Orchard Road shopping districts trying to stay awake. Fortunately, I checked back with the hotel by noon and they had a room available for me. I went straight to bed for a 3 hour nap and then headed out for dinner in the evening. Probably the nicest hotel I’ve stayed in on my own dime.<\/p>\n
Looks like Singapore is getting ramped up for the next two big events: Chinese New Year and Valentines Day. There were large piles of fireworks for sale in many of the Chinese markets which I don’t think airlines would want me leaving the country with. Valentines Day would normally not be worth mentioning except for the fact that they had installed big over-the-top purple light displays for it up and down walkways along Orchard Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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