{"id":280,"date":"2006-07-24T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2007-02-10T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T11:51:40","slug":"singapore-travel-and-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Singapore – travel and food"},"content":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Singapore okay and the hotel is very comfortable. The arrival sign in the airport was just a little disconcerting!<\/p>\n

\"Arrival\"<\/p>\n

Singapore is hot and humid and the air is heavy with hibiscus and bougainvillea. I decided to have a wander into the city – I’m am in the Raffles district – and one of the first things was to see to some food. I quickly found starbucks and subway and New York New York and Delifrance – but do you think I could find a simple noodle house?<\/p>\n

\"Singapore<\/p>\n

Finally someone said there’s a food hall\/market just one stop away on the MRT – the underground train – so I thought ‘can’t be too hard’ and found the system very like the ones in Europe … except once I went down the escalator to find the platform, it seemed like I was in a long corridor, with some funny markings at intervals along a big glass wall.<\/p>\n

Next thing a train comes along right next to the glass wall and doors open up everywhere! It seems they stop people falling onto the tracks by building a glass wall along the very edge of the platform, and carefully stop the train so its doors line up perfectly with the ones in the glass wall.
\nSoon I found myself on the other side of a canal and quickly found the food hall. Then the search was on for a decent local feed of noodles. Not much around if you were a vegetarian – but at least the food was cheap and filling.<\/p>\n

I have a great view from my balcony room on the 18th floor – about halfway up the hotel – and the hotel has the highest atrium in the southern hemisphere – I’d believe it too: the interior looking up just keeps going up and up.<\/p>\n

\"Pan<\/p>\n

\"Singapore<\/p>\n

\"Singapore<\/p>\n

Anyhow it seems I am largely destined to eat mainly western food as this is a major tourist area.<\/p>\n

And to round off the seven days – I’m up to 77968 steps for the week.<\/p>\n

\"pedometer\"<\/p>\n

Despite not sleeping much last night I managed six hours on the plane here so I’m not as wrecked as I thought I might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Singapore okay and the hotel is very comfortable. The arrival sign in the airport was just a little disconcerting! Singapore is hot and humid and the air is heavy with hibiscus and bougainvillea. I decided to have a wander into the city – I’m am in the Raffles district – and one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}