Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts

Sunday, May 11, 2008

More, More, More Singapore

Another view of the skyline.
Yes, they do a bit of shipping over there.
Another look at the Esplande Theater.
Another look at the skyline.
This is inside what I'm pretty sure is a sall mahjong club/hall on Club Street, I think.
Most of the bars on this street were small, classy, internationally themed, low key sorts of places. There was even a Tennesse BBQ place here, with USDA beef.

More, more Singapore

More beautiful trees in the midst of downtown.
Greekesque train station in the very heart of downtown.
Mix of old and new buildings downtown.

Two pics above of a cheap eats food court in Chinatown, I think, that was just beginning to be renovated. All the restaurant stalls were being moved out for 1 1/2 years, while the rebuild the building. I ate at one of the few still operating. Like the hidden Hong Kong Eatery in Boston's China Town.

More Singapore

Inside the apparently famous/reknowned, fancy, expensive, venerable Raffles Hotel complex. There's a great bar here called the Long Bar, where the Singapore Sling was invented. A draft there was about $14US, so I just took a look and walked on.
I think this is the Parliament building. I'm standing on the sporting grounds of some large athletic club in the middle of the city. Grass tennis courts, soccer fields, etc.
Part of the skyline from the sporting fields.
Some beautiful trees near those same fields.
The "controversial" Esplanade Theater complex.

Singapore

Typical subway station. Very well run, fairly cheap.
I always feel like a goof ball taking pics inside of trains with folks watching me.
Fast & easy way to buy ticket.

Typical Singapore street scenes.