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tues /wed 25/26th july
hey everyone this is my first very exciting jounral entry, not able to load photos at the mo but maybe later on it the journey
our journey begin one sunny day as we travelled from home to heathrow, picking amie up on the way..who i hadnt seen for a whole year!! little miss organised with her lists had to stop off at the supermarket on the way to the airport as id forgotten some essentials! before taking off amie and I visited o'neills to toast to a successful journey and calm amies nerves before take off, shes such a blah blah baby i had to hold her hand! we flew to Doha which is next to dubai to catch out connecting flight to singapore, had to run to catch the next plane. first flight good, own tv's, free booze, nice comfy blankets. secong flight poo, both tired and they gave us blamkets that were too small. i was getting annoyed with everyone who was fast asleep as me and amie only got like 2 hours. tiredness was not helped by the constant tubelerence which doesnt normally affect me but made me feel sick. glad to land in singapore and was greeted my scary looking army guards carrying huge guns. visited teh tourist info centre, and armed with leaflets we headed to our hotel. when we arrived we were told we were at the wrong hotel and told that out hotel was walking distance...so armed with our backpacks we headed for our new hotel which was miles away! finally got there covered in sweat and was greeted my a lovely room. showered and headed out for soem tea...omg we were offered fish head porridge, pig organ soup, fried cat yum yum. after an hour and a half walk we found a nice clean food court thingy and then headed back to go to bed. on the way back to our hotel we noticed a lot of "physical exercise" centres! the area we are in is full of locals and there dont seem to be many tourists at all..but most all all friendly. the city has definately been an eyeopener as some places are more westernised than others...oooohhhh wonder what tomor will bring??....
thurs 27th july
amie and I woke up this morning very refreshed and positive about the day ahead, we were determined to find some touristy spots. we packed a lil picnic and headed off on our jouney. we sat by the river and ate our picnic overlooking the maaassssiiivvve sky scrapers which are surronded my palm trees...well strange. watched a ole man who must have been about 90 having a swim then doing some yoga on the grass. encountered our first squat toilet (yeh got a pic), which we didnt use as there were normal ones...bit worried about when we go have to thouigh as not sure how to wee without getting it down ur leg! came across the lovely place where we ate last nite and realised that we had actually eaten in a hospital canteen!!! we were so tired we must have failed to notice that we were surronded my ppl in gowns and wheelchairs. we ahve literally walked all day for miles...looked at temples, the famous raffles hotel, embassy buildings, went to the biggest market in singapore, posh shopping centres. the other end of singapore very westerised, lots of western restaurants etc... had a really coool day but feet hurt sooo much, had to have a little seista, glad to have worn my jesus creepers! they look lovely! we are like celebritys over here (tuinisia repeated)...we get beeped at and talked to all the time. best go..im off to do some washing before beddy byes, all thsi walking had tireded me out. more exploring planned for tomoro and then booked onto to the nitetime safari
muchio lovious to all, hope everyone well xxxxxxxxxxx
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