Singapore – colour & culture without character
It’s not often that we come away from a place feeling as though it’s been a bit of a disappointment. This time, sanitised Singapore is just that for us. We’ve been to Singapore on several occasions. It’s always been a model of cleanliness and order – almost a textbook example of what the Orient could, perhaps should, be like; instead of the normal shambles to be found in many Far-eastern countries. But we think its gone too far...
Singapore Sling – it must be Raffles!
Predictable it might be – but after you’ve toured the bustling, spotless streets and sights of Singapore, ridden the cable car to Sentosa, the MRT train to a highly emasculated Bugis Street (which now only sports open air shopping of a merchandising kind without all the previous risqué razzmatazz of the transgender beauties of the seventies) and taken in the endless Malls of glittering consumerism then it’s good to step away from...
