Pleasant walk along the river this morning. Our hotel is in a great spot on a bend in the Singapore River in a very residential area...... so quiet. About 1500M up river from Clarke Quay and with a treed river path on both banks.
Took a cruise down river and around Marina Bay on a very pleasant morning (air quality excepted). Followed on with a walk up through the colonial quarter which has some lovely old buildings that have been preserved. Time for Pat in Raffles Plaza and then on to Raffles - still the same grand old place but hard to imagine it being a financial or literary powerhouse these days.
Back to hotel for feet up for Pat and a shuttle (more like a slow boat to China) to Chinatown for me. Nothing has changed here, still the same old Chinatown - 5 degrees warmer than the rest of Singapore, but progressivey being surrounded on all sides by big new retail developments, all with the same brand name shopping opportunities.
Arrived back to the news that a PM challenge was on at home, and to be determined this evening!! By late afternoon today the air quality has really deteriorated, with visbility down below around 400M. Time around the pool and then off to dinner, this time to our genuine local hawker market on Zion Rd. Nowhere near as busy tonight as the weekend nights, but really enjoyed my food. For the past four weeks Pat has carried her umbrella and rain jacket with her everywhere - tonight they would have been handy.
Rain cleared, and our last walk back along the river. There are some things Singaporean that we could do with back home - we come back via two under road tunnels that in Australia would be prime graffiti sites, but here they are pristine, not a scribble, not aspeck of rubbish and not a cigarette butt.
Back to the hotel, and guess what???? Aust has a new PM! You leave with one and come home to a new one. Home tomorrow!!!!
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