So 10th September 2012 me and my sister, Katie left walsall in search of new adventures. We have an 8 month round the world ticket, hard earned savings and not a care in the world.
Our trip has already taken us to Thailand and Malaysia, we are currently in Singapore, and we still have: Austrailia, Fiji, New Zealand, Chile Peru and Brazil to come!
We've actually been travelling for
nearly two months now, but I'll be honest I got travel blogger envy, and it finally spurred me into starting a travel blog of my own, and well, here it is.
I have been keeping a written journal whilst I've been away- so all isn't lost, my aim is to start from now but every so often upload an entry from earlier on in our trip. I know I'll lose out in terms of the chronological order of things, but honestly I just want to have everything in one place, whatever the order.
Right well that's the story so far, (kinda) here it's is from now.
We arrived in Singapore yesterday 06/11 after taking a 5 hour coach journey (yeh right, it was more like 7.5, we've come to learn that time here in South East Asia is forever underestimated) from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We arrived early evening and made our way to the Beary Nice Hostel in Chinatown. This is our first time in dorm accommodation. Not sure what we expected but its really nice here, clean!! & very chilled which is exactly what we like!
Today, being our first full day we decided to get our bearings (no pun intended). The public transport system in Malaysia, I'm not gonna lie was amazing- I am aware that such statements don't light me up to be the all out definition of fun, but hang in there. But wow, the MRT system here in Singapore is just as good if not better! Everything is SO clean and actually runs on time, it's incredible! Right transport geek out over, back to what else we did today. First off (obviously) we caught the MRT to Bras Basah station and then made our way to Fort Canning Park, a small green retreat located on a hill within the city. The streets of Singapore a very busy so it was nice to take a break here for an hour or two and learn about the parks history throughout the ages, dating back to 1822. It started raining just as we got the the end of our loop of the park so we decided to seek shelter and head over the road to Raffles hotel and Long Bar for a Singapore sling, it was yummy!
We made our way back to Chinatown for an early dinner. We'd read about Hawker stalls but as yet we are yet to find any- or should I say find any that are as cheap as the ones we have read they were. But there's always tomorrow....
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