Singapore sightseeing

We've been slightly out of wifi access and fairly busy the last few days, so it's been difficult to blog. So the next few posts are a bit of a catch-up!

We had a lovely long day out around Singapore – walking from the hotel, towards Bencoolen Street – where the apartments are that we stayed in with Ralphie on our last visit back in 2005. (Pictures of that to come when we upload them from the camera). So many things have changed in the city. Massive building work – including digging up the whole of Bencoolen Street to put in a new train station.

We tried to retrace some steps from that first visit – looking for the food halls and temples we saw last time. We did manage to find the food market on Robinson Road "Telok Ayer Market" or Lau Pa Sat Market which is an old Victorian fish market (made in Glasgow and shipped over) which is now set up as a food centre.

Isn't it fab???

– loads of different food sellers flogging every type of food you can imagine. Pig organ soup, anyone?

We indulged our desire for noodles and dumplings in one of the stalls...

This is my favorite kind of food in the world. A big old soup made from stuff & noodles!

I think I have a photo of this from last time!

After lunch we wandered through the financial district...

and then we wandered a bit further down town.

We sat and had a nice beer in another familiar location – a bar alongside the river, where I'm pretty sure we'd been last time. This time we had the additional view of the Marina Bay Sands hotel, towering up behind the buildings opposite us on the river. You may recognise it from the F1 coverage...

Although I'd seen it on the TV during the F1 coverage, I didn't actually realise it was a ship, on top of the 3 columns. It's so beautiful!!!

There are a few more pics from this lovely day out on the camera still (these are just off my phone) so I'll publish them when we get the pics off the camera!