We decided to have a bit of a look around the rest of the island today and caught the MRT train and did a loop to the north of the city and around in a westerly direction back to City Hall. The Mass Rapid Transit is typically Singaporean. That is, totally efficient, spotlessly clean and very well used! The system has 3 main lines running east-west, north-south and north-east, with an city circle line about to open also. There are about 118 kilometres of line exis...

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 acr...

Our Night Safari at the Zoo last night was good - very commercialized with thousands of people there - but it was quite entertaining and for the $SD30 each it cost, was good value. The bus left from Suntec City (which is only a short walk from the Pan Pacific) at 6.00pm and we headed out into the peak hour traffic for the Zoo some 20 kms away. Such was the snarl of traffic that it took us over an hour to get there but it was good to see some of the other areas of...

Today we decided to test out the local train and bus system and head out to Changi for a look at the Changi Prisoner of War Museum.Then nearest MRT station was at City Hall, which was only a short distance away, trying to negoitiate the streets or the malls is a bit of a nightmare so we sought instructions from one of the many helpful hotel staff. She in fact walked with us part of the way so that we wouldn't get lost - try getting that sort of service in Oz!...

Well, Wednesday saw us have brekky at Starbucks again, only because of the coffee! – the food halls have lots of Asian stuff which would be good to try but they don't do coffee!Afterwards we booked a Night Safari at the Zoo for tomorrow night and then caught the bus down to Clarke Quay to take a river cruise. The Quay is full of bars and restaurants and we decided we might go back later for dinner. They even have a Singaporean Hooters! The only problem ...