Category: Singapore

June 27, 2007 Andy 2 Comments

You’re sat in the office on a dull afternoon reading this immensely interesting blog and quietly wondering to yourself, how can he afford all this? This round the world trip has been a long term plan of mine ever since uni when Jon and I said we would travel once we graduated. Well that didn’t happen due to money and the fact that I was enjoying Spain too much when Jon did set off. For this trip Espe and I had been saving for about a year, helped out by a pay rise (and an unexpected bonus a month before…

June 13, 2007 Andy 0 Comments

High rise Singapore came as a big contrast to everywhere we’ve been to so far. The place is so clean, so modern, so efficient and very multicultural. In fact it felt like Europe, albeit cleaner. Part of the reason for this are the strict rules enforced all over the state. Fines exist for eating or drinking on the metro, jaywalking and, get this, chewing gum. The result is the cleanest city in the world. A pleasant place to spend some time although I think I would go crazy day in day out waiting so long at traffic lights to cross…