Singapore Botanic Gardens

In the Botanic Gardens. 

We awoke quite early and was out for about 10.00am. The hotel was quite close to the Botanic Gardens so we walked from the hotel.

It was sunny and hot and it wasn’t long before we had to have a pit stop. We found an Indian Cafe and had a quick coffee and curry. A large white woman with a very red face appeared and obviously needed to cool down. It looked as if she had ran a marathon. It doesn’t pay to be overweight in Singapore! We were off again and soon in the park. After an hour Sue was flagging and her face was becoming bright red despite constantly drinking water from her bottle. We walked down to the Tanglin Mall at the bottom of the Gardens and sought refuge in the air conditioning. We did some grocery shopping inside and got a taxi back to the hotel for an afternoon siesta.

The pool was empty late afternoon (6pm) and Sue popped down and enjoyed the pool to herself.

In the evening we caught a taxi down to Orchard Road. It was busy, really busy. I don’t remember it being like this last time we were here in 2001. We walked around for ages trying to find somewhere suitable to eat. The food halls were cheap here but Ugh! the smells were awful. We are not fish lovers and most places had fish in their dishes. We found a more western place but people were queueing to get in. We walked around for about an hour and a half altogther. Sue was getting a little brassed off. She wasn’t coping well with the heat and humidity. I ended up with a bowl of soup and Sue with a hot dog. We then waited ages for a taxi. People were wating everywhere.

~ by blackgoth on April 5, 2007.