Singapore - Siobhan turns 30

We flew from Goa to Mumbai, (we had that one booked), and we went to the international terminal to get a flight our flight to Singapore. While we were in the airport we booked a nice hotel on Expedia as I was turning 30 while we were in Singapore.

We got to Singapore and it was a complete contrast to India. Even with all the traffic it seemed very peaceful and clean. The hotel sent us up to an unmade room by accident and they upgraded us to a suite for the inconvenience. This was very different to the service industry in India. It was the perfect place to go and catch our breath after the previous 6 or so weeks.

While we were in Singapore we went to National Museum and spent a few hours wandering around the wonderful exhibits.

We then headed to Raffles for the obligatory Singapore sling. The floor of raffles is covered with peanut shells which was weird to walk on. Then we headed back to the room so that I could have snooze before going out for my birthday.

Two staff from the hotel came up with cake and sang me happy birthday. It was nice of the hotel but it made it a little harder to be away from home on a day that I am usually around a crowd of people.

When I got up from my snooze terry has cake and a bottle of champagne waiting for me. We drank the champers as we got ready to go out.

We went to a centre called Chijmes, which had a few bars. We drank, we danced, and we chatted to strangers. We had McDonalds o the way home. We could only get breakfast as it was 5am.it was made though as there were a lot of runners in Maca’s as there was a marathon starting in the next few minutes.

The next day was a waste cause I was a waste. We had breakfast brought to the room and I was eating morsels til about 6pm. We then went for a walk about. Singapore was in full swing for Christmas, it looked magical, as if santa had upchucked the substance essence of the season all over Singapore. It was lovely.

The next day we went to the airport. All we knew is that we were going to Indonesia. We had no flight, no guide book and no idea where in Indonesia we wanted to go.