Friday 31 Oct 2008
Singapore, Singapore
Déjà Vu...
We arrived in Singapore for the second time this trip after a short but nail-biting flight from Phuket. We stayed in the same hostel as before and were greeted as old friends. We felt like pro's negotiating the MRT with ease; when we gave some fresh-faced travellers transport advice we realised just how far we had come in these past three months, not just in distance but in experience too.
Our first day in the city is spent walking around the many shopping malls, it just feels nice knowing our way around somewhere and going places we've been before. We chatted into the early hours with our South Korean roommates who were very fascinated with our hand drawn maps and plans of where we've been in Asia. Our dorm has no windows so we end up having a much needed lay-in in the morning. Day two is spent wondering around again and changing our flight to India in the very posh Singapore Airlines office. We've had to cut our trip a little short and have therefore decided to fly straight to Delhi instead of Chennai and do a tour of Rajasthan instead of India as a whole. We're both happy about this change in plan as we feel we'll get to see a smaller area of India in greater depth. To celebrate our new plans we took ourselves to the cinema and both phoned home which was lovely.
Day three is Delhi day! Before leaving Singapore we headed out towards the airport to Changi Prison where Sion's Grandad was held as a Japanese Prisoner of War for three years in the 1940's. It has been turned into a museum now and was very interesting, especially as very little is known about his time in Singapore. After the museum we made our way to the airport and prepared ourselves for the two weeks to come in our final country of the trip...