30th March - Singapore - Arab Street - meanwhile back in Rebak on The Track...

Sunday 30^th March

Time to leave the Grand Chancellor in Little India and to move on to a different location.  This hotel is OK…all except for the mattress, and the meanness re WiFi.

Singapore skyscrapers are SPECCY!!

We are going to stay in the Arab Street area today.  So beautiful!

And so different from anywhere else we have been in Singapore.  A small slice of maybe Morocco (sanitised Singapore-style…)

Fabulous Masjid Sultan - designed by an Irishman!

The streets are quaint and colourful and lined with shops selling fabulous material.

Colourful!

 Elaborate:

 So delicate and pretty!

And different shops selling…curios!

We walked a long way around the central parts of Singapore.  Every now and then we would come upon Marina Bay Sands, and the huge ferris wheel, much closer than we could imagine them being.

Along the way we passed worksites, with these signs proudly displayed:

And the odd horrible warning:

Singapore is a very regulated place full of law-abiding citizens. Or else!

We are moving to a most beautiful hotel called the Clover.  I took a photo in the foyer

We looked at a lot of other options.  Most of them had ghastly hard mattresses; some of them were more expensive than, and not as nice as, the Tanglin Club.  This one is in the middle.  VERY comfy, and not too bad if we go halves…

Did I include this gorgeous fluff-headed bird yesterday??  If not...why not?

Next episode from Misty and Peter (SV Tamoure) – The Slashers on the Jungle Trail and the Rope Track on Rebak Island

Singapore orchids again - aaahhh...

Another lesson learnt on the slope today: keep mouth shut when slashing stubborn bamboo..........  Not as painful as a faceful of ants but a mouthful of tough bamboo hurts.  Bit of a whiplash effect........  Sympathy received this time:  Lucky it wasn't your eye!  Ah well - we are winning on the Rope Slope but the forest is certainly fighting back.  Oh - today we actually had a look at those ants.  Peter noticed they were swarming - wasp-like - over a leaf.  Looked quite pretty actually - a bit like some of your Islamic art.......... - but we were glad they were otherwise occupied.