Singapore

I am lucky enough to have visited Singapore three different times around ten to fifteen years ago. This was around the time my then girlfriend (now wife) and I travelled all around South East Asia. My wife's father was also working in the Oil Industry in Singapore at the time, so it was the perfect excuse to go and visit him also. Had he not been living there, we would not have visited more than once, as there is so much more to see in South East Asia, and we travelled extensively around Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Australia back then.

As per my previous Haveyoubeenhere posts, this one will be mainly visual, with around twenty or thirty of my photographs shared and a little bit of commentary along the way, where necessary. Something to bear in mind with these photos is that they were taken back in 2006 and 2007, so the photography technology was not nearly as good as it is today. I have also mislaid a lot of photos - I know that they are on an external hard drive or an old computer someplace in the house, I just need to unearth them! I did find some photos from Singapore though, which I'll share with you below.

View from the Plane

The Chang Towers

These were a great idea and I haven't really seen them outside of Asia. They basically sell you a tower of Chang beer that holds around 5 or 6 pints and you just help yourself when you go dry. It is pretty handy and means not as many trips to the bar and everyone can drink at their own pace.

There is just something about Icy cold beer on a humid evening in Singapore that absolutely hits the spot.

In typical Irish fashion, we did seek out an Irish bar to sample the local Guinness and it was no surprise that it was distinctly average, I still remember almost 15 years later!

Mr Gecko

These guys are class and they were a dime a dozen in Singapore and Asia in general. This little Gecko took up residence just outside our hotel room and was a friendly little fellow coming out to say hello most evenings when we were on way to dinner and was hoping that dinner would fly past from him to eat.

Sentosa Island - The Luge

We still have banter about this to this day. The luge is for kids and teenagers I think, but it didnt stop myself and my father in law and brother in law giving it a go. You fly down hill in these little go karts type things and they are great fun altogether. I kicked the lads asses and they were whinging says that I won because I was the lightest! The race is all downhill with gravity and skill the variables at play, but they were having none of it. I still won, so was happy with that :)

Sentosa Island - The Wave Rider

So I've seen a few of these wave rider machines since this, but in 2008 when I first saw this in Singapore, I had never seen one before and instantly myself and my brother in law wanted a go - it looked pure class. Theses photos were taken by us and are not of us, but we were equally as good if not better. We honestly didn't fall over time after time after time, as our wives looked on breaking their asses laughing at us. Honestly...

Sentosa Island - The Beach

This is the beach at Sentosa, which was nice to chill out at, now it's a man made beach as far as I remember, so no where near as nice as beaches in Thailand, Cambodia, Australia etc, but it was still nice all the same and we chilled here for a while too.

Some boats

I can't actually remember what the story was with these boats? I guess it was just down in Clarke Quay and I took a photo as I liked the look of it.

Now that's a boat!

Call that a boat!!!? This is a boat. Here is the amazing Marina Bay Sands Singapore hotel. If I go back to Singapore again, I will definitely stay here.

Here are some photos of the hotel from the internet, as my photo is old and fully do this place justice. I just wish I had more money back then, and we definitely would have stayed here for a couple of nights. Who knows, we might do a stop over some time in the future on the way to visit my best friend who lives in Australia.

Keep of the Grass

I should really not take the piss so much, as the law does not always see the funny side of this in Singapore and it can be quite easy to get a fine or worse for something that by Western standards would not seem too bad.

So, I have a tonne more photos someplace on a drive or old laptop and if I ever manage to unearth these, I may some day have a Singapore II post, but I wouldn't bank on it tbh! Oh well at least I there wasn't any old Bitcoin sitting on it, now that would be a stress!!

That's it from me. Thanks as always for stopping by. Laters.

Peace Out